Holocaust (miniseries)

Holocaust
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Genre	Miniseries Drama
Created by	Gerald Green
Written by	Gerald Green
Directed by	Marvin J. Chomsky
Starring	Joseph Bottoms Tovah Feldshuh Michael Moriarty Meryl Streep James Woods David Warner Fritz Weaver Sam Wanamaker George Rose John Houseman
Theme music composer	Morton Gould
Country of origin	United States
Original language(s)	English
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	4
Production
Producer(s)	Robert Berger Herbert Brodkin
Cinematography	Brian West
Editor(s)	Craig McKay Stephen A. Rotter
Running time	475 minutes
Release
Original network	National Broadcasting Company (NBC)
Original release	April 16 – April 19, 1978 (United States)

Holocaust is a 1978 American four part television miniseries which tells the story of the Holocaust from the perspective of the (fictional) Weiss family of German Jews and that of a rising member of the SS, who gradually becomes a merciless war criminal. Holocaust highlighted numerous important events which occurred up to and during World War II, such as Kristallnacht, the creation of Jewish ghettos and later, the use of gas chambers. Although the miniseries won several awards and received critical acclaim, it was criticized by some, including noted Holocaust survivor and author Elie Wiesel, who described it as "untrue and offensive."

The series was presented in four parts on NBC:

 

A German Jewish family, the Weisses, consists of Dr. Josef Weiss (Fritz Weaver), the father; Berta Weiss (Rosemary Harris), the mother and talented pianist; Karl Weiss (James Woods), an artist who is married to a Christian woman named Inga Helms-Weiss (Meryl Streep); Rudi Weiss (Joseph Bottoms), an independent, rebellious soccer player; Anna Weiss (Blanche Baker), the young daughter; and Moses Weiss (Sam Wanamaker), Josef's brother and a chemist from Warsaw. Throughout the series, each member of the Weiss family experiences hardships and are ultimately led to a terrible fate, with the exception of Rudi and Inga.

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