Talk:Auschwitz (film)

What is it about?

is he actually doing a straight-forward drama?? --99.101.160.159 (talk) 21:23, 4 August 2011 (UTC)

It's more like a documentary. The first part is interviews with vocational students today who know next to nothing about the Holocaust, not even what century it took place in. Boll pretty much uses that as an excuse to next show us a 30-minute segment like straight out of Schindler's List, which is a straightforward re-enactment of a train arriving at the Auschwitz death camp, infants of the group being shot outside, the rest then being led to the "shower rooms" and gassed to death. Everything happening while the SS guards are idly chatting amongst themselves about their careers and colleagues. After that 30-minute re-enactment, there's another round of interviews, this time with students of better education, who can tell you a few more bits about the Holocaust than that first group at the start. --79.193.54.58 (talk) 07:20, 11 September 2011 (UTC)

is it anti-German propaganda? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 150.226.95.18 (talk) 09:18, 13 August 2012 (UTC)

Boll is famous for controversial approaches, gore and exploitation. He is neither a historian nor a documantarian. For this movie he exploits the shoa and some pupils who unwittingly support a common controversy concerning Education in Germany. The first group is identified as pupils educated on a "Hauptschule" while the second group is identified as pupils from a "Gymnasium" commonly considered to provide the best possible education. In fact Boll himself states in an Interview here (https://www.welt.de/kultur/article10821778/Auschwitz-Film-schockiert-mit-brennenden-Kindern.html) that he also interviewed kids from a "special school" for the first segment. Considering Bolls work ethics(evident by his other movies) it is more than likely that he deliberately picked the worst statements while editing the movie. The interviews do not truthfully reflect the common grade of knowledge among german teenagers, and the reenactments provide no educational benefit beyond the schock-value of their brutality.79.214.116.209 (talk) 12:45, 4 August 2021 (UTC)

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