CERN CineClub - Kapò

Wednesday 11 Mar 2009, 20:30 → 22:30 Europe/Zurich

503/1-001 - Council Chamber (CERN)

Directed by Gillo Pontecorvo (Italy 1959) Naive fourteen-year-old Edith and her Jewish parents are sent to a concentration camp, where the latter are killed. Sofia, an older, political prisoner, and a kindly camp doctor save her from a similar fate by giving her a new, non-Jewish identity, that of the newly dead Nichole Niepas. As time goes by, she becomes more hardened to the brutal life. She first sells her body to a German guard in return for food; she becomes fond of another guard, Karl. The fraternization helps her become a kapo, Italian with english subtitles http://cineclub.web.cern.ch/Cineclub/