Germany – A German-made film about the horrors of the Nazi death camp of Auschwitz is so horrific that many critics have already said they will boycott it when it is released next year.
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A clip of Uwe Boll’s film entitled Auschwitz is already on the internet, showing disturbing images of naked victims dying in gas chambers.
Mr Boll, a filmmaker who has made it his life’s work to shock, said he wanted to present to the world “a movie about the Holocaust that tells it like it really was”.
Tom Goldman, from videogame magazine the Escapist, said the film was “disturbing and gruesome and likely to push moviegoers over the edge”.
“The words Auschwitz and Uwe Boll in one breath rightly leads one to fear the worst. This film provokes outrage, confusion and panic,” added Sophie Albers in Stern magazine.
Boll, 45, insists that his Auschwitz film is serious and not just violence for its own sake.
“For too long audiences have been softened by special story films about the Holocaust like Schindler’s List and Life is Beautiful. It wasn’t like that. It was hell and that’s what I show,” he said.
Editor: A YouTube preview which is available online is too shocking to post.
These types of films usually encourage copy-Cat type antisemitic acts.
Statistically, every time these type of films are released there is huge increase in antisemitic attacks.
The Antisemitism all have full blown hatred against Jews but luckily most of them are too stupid too scared to have the guts to act on their disgusting hateful feelings.
These types of films gives them the ideas and courage and legitimacy to act out their deranged sub-human Nazi-like, hateful intentions and teaches all bums just how to do it Chas Vesholom and how easy it is to do Chas Vesholom.
and there, my friends, is the classic liberal (nazi). ‘we dont want to show the world this video because its ‘shocking’, ‘gruesome’ ‘disturbing’, yet if a bunch of arabs tear each other apart in Lebanon and there is blood and body parts all over, they post it all aver cnn and the rest of the web.
Its not shocking at all if you would have listened to my parents describe their 6 years from ’39 to ’45. Talk to the very few remaining jews who were in Auschvitz and other death camps and you will hear the gruesome truth. It is impossible to fathom that so called human beings could act in such cruel inhuman ways. Pure monsters.
The truth hurts.
I watched the trailer, shocking and hard to view but just imagine the people who were actually there! It is important that world see what the horrific things that happened there.
Violence and shock-value is the only artform that young people understand today.. You take a high school class and show schindlers list they will probably fall asleep and ignore the movie.. You show them extremely graphic content maybe theyll listen and get importance of the shoa..
I watched the trailer. It was shockingly mundane – considering that this a movie about AUSCHWITZ. Ok, it is true – I was braising myself for the worse given the hysterical frenzy that surrounds the film. Nevertheless I would recommend just watching the trailer and deciding for yourself. The imagery is not worse than what one would see in a strong horror film.
What worries me about our society is the death of tragedy. We expect a holocaust movie to be entertaining and uplifting. We want to feel good when it is over as Mr Schindler rescues a few hundred people, rather than think about the millions that died. We enjoy deluded fantasies of Brad Pitt capturing the Nazi Hunter and everyone going home happy. There is a place for that of course. But life also has a real dark side. Sheer deluded horror is a real part of humanity and nature. An elephant being torn apart and eaten alive by a pack of lions (it takes hours) is as much a part of nature as a beautiful sunset. This movie is as absurd and has as much of a place in the holocaust genre as ‘life is beautiful’.
The generation that witnessed these horrors on their very flesh and survived is almost gone.Many of them were unable to talk to their families about their experiences. Our youth today is often reluctant to read Holocaust biographies and accounts. How will the magnitude of these horrors be perpetuated so that the world remembers? Kol HaKavod to Uwe Boll for his courage and determination, the awful scenes notwithstanding. It is imperative to show the barabarity of the Nazis, the descendants of Amalek, with no holds barred. Let the moviegoers go home and suffer sleepless nights and picture themselves suffocating to death from Zyklon B, clawing one another to get to a higher elevation where there was still oxygen and feel the heat of the crematoria that often burned still living persons. !
I watched the trailer as well. It was horrifying. During one bit, I had to look away. I cannot imagine how #9 found it  220;shockingly mundane. 221; I grant that it is impossible to fully capture on film the monstrosity of Aushwitz, none the less, it seems that this film maker, Uwe Boll, is willing to  220;push the envelope 221; much further than anyone has dared before.
I can understand the protest on a certain level: is this slash-fest director making this movie just for it 217;s shock and gore value? I do not know and neither do the critics. Only Mr. Boll knows his motivations but he is right: holocaust movies have been  220;toned down 221; stories about people rather than the abomination that was the Shoah.
I tend to agree with #8  217;s assessment of young people today. I would take it a step further and say that even people in my age bracket have been inured to the point that maybe some of us need to be shocked as well. I think maybe people DO need to be horrified.
An analogy can be found pertaining to the various war movies made about World War Two (made in the 1940’s), such as “Sands of Iwo Jima”, “Guadalcanal Diary”, “Back to Bataan”, etc; those movies really did not really show the horror of war. On the other hand, the recent HBO miniseries entitled “The Pacific” showed in gruesome and graphic detail the horrors of war.