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Holocaust(TV show/series, 1978)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 28min per episode | Genres: Drama, War & Politics

Mini series in 1 season with 4 episodes

HolocaustRating: 3.7/5 (with 30 votes)
Holocaust (full title: Holocaust: The Story of the Family Weiss) (1978) is an American television miniseries which aired on NBC over four nights, from April 16 — April 19, 1978. It dramatizes the Holocaust from the perspective of the Weiss family, fictional Berlin Jews Dr. Josef Weiss (Fritz Weaver), his wife Berta (Rosemary Harris), and their three children—Karl (James Woods), an artist married to Inga (Meryl Streep), a Christian woman; Rudi (Joseph Bottoms); and teenage Anna (Blanche Baker). It also follows Erik Dorf (Michael Moriarty), a fictional "Aryan" lawyer who becomes a Nazi out of economic necessity, rising within the SS and gradually becoming a war criminal. Holocaust highlights numerous events which occurred both up to and during World War II, such as Kristallnacht, the constru... ()
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Berlin, Germany, 1935. The day Karl Weiss, a Jewish painter, and Inga Helms, a Christian woman, marry, is the one in which both of them and the entire Weiss family are caught up in the maelstrom of the Nazi regime, the storms of World War II and the horrors of the criminal Final Solution, the Holocaust, the Shoah; while Erik Dorf, an ambitious lawyer, undertakes his fall into hell at the hands of the sinister Reinhard Heydrich.

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Holocaust Seasons and Episodes

04/16/1978Miniseries - 4 episodes
Berlin, Germany, 1935. The day Karl Weiss, a young Jewish painter, and Inga Helms, a beautiful Christian woman, marry, is the one in which both of them and the entire Weiss family are caught up in the terrifying maelstrom of the Nazi regime, the tragic storms of World War II and the unspeakable horrors of the criminal Final Solution, the Holocaust, the Shoah; while Erik Dorf, an ambitious but wimpy lawyer undertakes his fall into hell at the hands of the sinister Reinhard Heydrich.
#1 | 04/16/1978The Gathering Darkness
3.5/5 (with 3 votes)
Berlin, Germany, 1935. The Weisses, a Jewish family, celebrate son Karl's marriage to Inga Helms, a Christian girl. When Erik Dorf is unable to find work as a lawyer, wife Marta urges him to apply for a Nazi regime job. Erik Dorf warns Dr. Weiss he should leave Germany. Karl is arrested and sent to Buchenwald concentration camp, and Dr. Weiss is deported to Poland. Erik Dorf continues to advance in the Nazi hierarchy.
#2 | 04/17/1978The Road To Babi Yar
3.4/5 (with 3 votes)
Inga is desperate to reunite with Karl, but her parents do not want to risk hiding her Jewish in-laws. Rudi runs away from their hiding place. Erik Dorf helps Heydrich plan and execute his Final Solution. Moses and Dr. Weiss are caught when the Nazis overrun Poland. Helena rescues Rudi from a patrol. Berta joins her husband in the Warsaw ghetto. Rudi and Helena escape to Russia.
#3 | 04/18/1978The Final Solution
3.4/5 (with 3 votes)
Rudi and Helena escape from a long procession of Jews being marched into Babi Yar. They are eventually rescued from a hayloft by a group of Jewish partisans. Erik Dorf attends a top-level Nazi conference in which Heydrich gives orders of the final solution for all the Jews in Europe. Karl Weiss has been transferred to Theresienstadt concentration camp that the Germans use to display to the Red Cross officials and representatives of neutral countries that Jews are being treated kindly. Karl learns that his fellow artists in the camp are creating propaganda paintings by day while secretly drawing images of the brutal conditions of the camp by night.
#4 | 04/19/1978The Saving Remnant
3.7/5 (with 3 votes)
Erik Dorf complains to the other SS leaders that the executions of the Jews are not being efficiently done. An order is placed by Erik for Zyklon B (a lethal gas) for use at Auschwitz and other camps. Inga asks Müller to denounce her and have her sent to Karl at Theresienstadt. Felscher sells four of the secret drawings done by him, Frey and Karl, which depict the brutal conditions at Theresienstadt, to a Czech gendarme, which the SS get a hold of. Felscher, Frey and Karl are called in for questioning and then tortured. Karl survives and is sent to Auschwitz.
#5The Liberation
Karl sees Inga one last time, where she tells him she is carrying his child. In Warsaw, Josef is caught for setting up the clinic to act as a front to keep people from getting on the train, and him and Berta with Mr. and Mrs. Lowy are sent to Auschwitz. Moses joins the resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto and they are successful in holding back German soldiers over a three-week period. In the Ukraine, Uncle Sasha's unit attempts to shoot up a convoy, but Rudi is knocked unconscious. Rudi wakes up in the Sobibor camp, where he learns of a breakout being planned by the other prisoners and joins with them. He survives to the end of the war and is reunited with Inga in Theresienstadt. Rudi is asked to lead a group of Greek orphans into Palestine. Erik Dorf is placed in custody by the Americans.
04/18/1978Specials - 1 episode

Additional Information

Production country: United States of America (USA)
Original language: English (EN)
Spoken languages: Czech (CS), German (DE), English (EN), French (FR), Hebrew (HE), Russian (RU)
Translated into 15 languages: Danish (DA), German (DE), English (EN), Spanish (ES), French (FR), Hebrew (HE), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Georgian (KA), Dutch (NL), Portuguese (PT), Romanian (RO), Russian (RU), Swedish (SV), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)
Status: Ended
First episode released on: 04/16/1978
Last episode released on: 04/19/1978
Creator: Gerald Green
Producer: Robert Berger
Screenwriter: Gerald Green
Film Editor: Alan Heim
Director of Photography: Brian West
Composer: Morton Gould
Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):
"Holocausto"
"Holocaust - Die Geschichte der Familie Weiss"
"Ολοκαύτωμα"
"ホロコースト/戦争と家族"
"Holocaust: The Story of the Family Weiss"

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