Director
Steve Purcell
Leading Actors/Actresses
The movie is a documentary and so all individuals are appearing as themselves. The movie is narrated by Kelsey Grammer.
Supporting Actors/Actresses
N/A
Genre
Documentary, Eyewitness History Documentary
Language
English
Awards
no awards received at time of writing
Date of Release
February 1, 2015
Producer
Kitty Hart-Moxon, Robert Laundau, Steve PUrcell, Stephen D. Smith, Leslie Wilson
Setting and Context
Auschwitz-Birkenau, a concentration camp in Poland, present day but describing events that occurred in 1944-5
Narrator and Point of View
The narrator is Kelsey Grammer and he tells the story of Kitty's experiences through her eyes and also from the point of view of the others imprisoned.
Tone and Mood
The tone is sad and reflective; the mood is somber and also terrifying.
Protagonist and Antagonist
Kitty and her mother are the protagonists; the Germans are the antagonists.
Major Conflict
The film relates to the conflict of World War II.
Climax
Kitty and her mother are liberated from the concentration camp by the American army in April 1945.
Foreshadowing
A stranger informing the German authorities that Kitty and her mother were Jewish foreshadowed their capture and imprisonment at Auschwitz.
Understatement
N/A
Innovations in Filming or Lighting or Camera Techniques
N/A
Allusions
Kitty alludes to her experiences during her imprisonment and also alludes to other elements of the history of the regime; for example, she recalls that all the guards disappeared, which alludes to the Nazi officers' hasty escape from the camps once they realized that the end of the war was close.
Paradox
Kitty takes on several of the least popular jobs at the camp which actually saved her life as they were vital to the running of the camp and so kept her safe from the list of those about to be killed.
Parallelism
There is a parallel between Kitty and the high school girls who accompany her to Auschwitz; both first entered the gates to the camp at the age of fifteen.
