KAPO'

KAPO'(1960)
Plot summary

Nicole is the protagonist of this moving film directed by Gillo Pontecorvo. She is a Jewish girl taken prisoner and deported in a concentrantion camp. The girl sees her parents dying in a gas chamber.
This awful vision affects her so deeply that, for fear of losting her life, she prefers to cooperate with her jailors, by prostituting herself . In this way she betrays the other Jewish prisoners.
Nicole becomes a Kapò, a guardian who is forced to give orders to her camrades. But one day another group of prisoners arrives at the concentration camp. They come from different countries and Nicole falls in love with a Russian, Sasha.
Thanks to this love she saves the lives of Sasha and the other prisoners by sacrificing her own life.
In fact Nicole decides to help them escape and during the changing of the guard she enters the electric box to cut the electric wires that make it impossible to climb over the fences around the camp. The prisoners flee towards the forest but the jailors kille Nicole and shoot at the men trying to escape. Sasha is among them and, upset, he watches the sacrifice of the young Jewish girl.

Technical Schedule

Year: 1960
Length: 118
Origin: Italia
Colour: B/W
Genere: Dramatic
Distribution: CINERIZ - RICORDI VIDEO,
PANARECORD, GRUPPO EDITORIALE BRAMANTE
Directed by: Gillo Pontecorvo e Giuliano Montaldo (second unit)
Subject: Franco Solinas, Gillo Popntecorvo
Screen: Gillo Pontecorvo, Franco Solinas
Music: Gillo Pontecorvo, Carlo Rustichelli
Actors: Susan Strasberg, Laurent Terzieff,
Emmanuelle Riva, Dido Perego