7.3111 minSeason 1 • Episode 4
LatestErik 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.
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.
Acting
Tovah Feldshuh's Warsaw ghetto scenes will haunt your dreams.
Writing
Erik Dorf's arc: the banality of evil, humanized and terrifying.
Production
Shot on location where it happened. No comfort, no distance.
Creator
Gerald Green
Tom Bell
Adolf Eichmann
Joseph Bottoms
Rudi Weiss
Tovah Feldshuh
Helena Slomová
Rosemary Harris
Berta Palitz Weiss
Tony Haygarth
Heinz Müller
Michael Moriarty
Erik Dorf
George Rose
Lowy
Robert Stephens
Uncle Kurt Dorf
Meryl Streep
Inga Helms Weiss
Sam Wanamaker
Moses Weiss
David Warner
Heydrich
Fritz Weaver
Dr. Josef Weiss
James Woods
Karl Weiss
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Aired on German television in 1979 to 20 million viewers; directly led to new war crimes trials and the 'Vergangenheitsbewältigung' reckoning.
Meryl Streep was offered Inga but turned it down; the role made Rosemary Harris an Emmy winner instead.
US
