Kapo (Essential Art House)

Before he left his mark on cinema forever with the Battle of Algiers, Italian director Gillo Pontecorvo directed this uncompromising World War II drama about a young Jewish woman (Susan Strasberg) in a Nazi concentration camp who saves herself from death by assuming another's identity and becoming a ruthless warden. The Oscar-nominated Kapò was one of the first films to depict the horror of the Holocaust, and it does so with brutality and daring emotional complexity.

Director: Gillo Pontecorvo
Producer: John Wells
Producer: Lorenzo Di Bonaventura
Producer: Moris Ergas
Actor: Susan Strasberg
Actor: Laurent Terzieff
Actor: Emmanuelle Riva
Actor: Didi Perego
Actor: Gianni Garko
Actor: Annabella Besi
Actor: Mira Dinulovic
Actor: Dragomir Felba
Actor: Graziella Galvani