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Collectively the greatest acting performances ever

posted 10 years ago by RP_Mac_27
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A must watch for young upcoming actors.
Schell was the most memorizing, but much can be learned from the brilliance of Tracey, Dietrich, Garland, Clift, et al.

Needless to say a must for any school curriculum. The movie covers so many aspects and viewpoints of the horrors of mankind that one could almost argue anything favorably about these atrocities but yet closes the door on any justification what happened at the end in a brilliant fashion.

Always will be a must watch.

[–] ween-3 10 years ago

Yes, yes and yes. The current news about Walter Groening, the accountant at Auschwitz who is on trial in Germany at the age of 93 after stepping forward to admit his complicity, immediately brought to mind Burt Lancaster's role in this film. Groening himself is a living reminder of the banality of evil. The fact that he has chosen, as his last act on earth, to remind the world of the Holocaust of which he was a part, does not absolve him. But the world cannot afford to ignore his testimony.

George Santayana said "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it".