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"If you
wish to learn what more men and women could have done to save
Jews, watch Pierre Sauvage's poignant documentary. It is
superb!"
Elie Wiesel, witness, author, Nobel Peace Prize laureate
"An inquiry into the nature of goodness and a
personal odyssey. Moving and provocative. Enormously uplifting.
What an extraordinary story."
David Ansen, Newsweek
"Is no rare
thing to be moved to tears or shocked into silence when watching
a documentary about the Holocaust. but to find yourself laughing
out loud, feeling exhilarated and full of hope for humankind? A
thoughtful, challenging, timely work."
Ed Weiner, TV Guide
"Perhaps
the most extraordinary display of moral choice in this century.
One jaw-dropping tale after another. A great moral
adventure."
Robert Koehler, Los Angeles Times
"A
fascinating chapter of history intersecting an unsurpassingly
personal saga."
Todd McCarthy, Variety
"A personal
and modest masterpiece that can be compared to the best
achievements of the monumental Shoah and The Sorrow
and the Pity."
André Pierre Colombat, The Holocaust in French Film
(Scarecrow Press, 1993)
"Incroyable—as
compelling and exciting as fiction. A film that will be around
for a long time."
Charles Champlin, Los
Angeles Times
"Astonishing.
Olympian. Emotionally wrenching. Bulging with profound questions
of morality, responsibility and religion."
Desmond Ryan, Philadelphia
Inquirer
"Luminous.
It seems an anomaly to speak of an exhilarating Holocaust film,
but [this] is just that, and more."
Jay Carr, Boston Globe
"As moving—and
tough-minded—a film about efforts to save the Jews
of Europe as has been made."
Dorothy
Rabinowitz, Wall
Street Journal
"Flawless.
The best kind of filmmaking, both intensely personal and of
universal interest."
Tom Jacobs, Los
Angeles Daily News
"A
film-making triumph."
David Bianculli, New
York Post
"Offering a healthy
and bracing alternative to the ethnocentrism that informs so much
commentary about the Holocaust, this is a film that quite simply
restores one's faith in humanity."
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader,
on-line review
"As
an experience that you should not deny yourself, A+. I cannot imagine not getting something
positive out of this film. See it.."
Jeff Meyer, Internet Movie
Database, on-line review
"Like a murder mystery in reverse.
It's an examination of crimes that didn't take place, of
atrocities averted, and in such a way that history itself seems
to have been subverted by their absence."
Hal Hinson, Washington
Post, on-line review
"Sublimely
understated and unsentimental. Deserves to be called the do-good
movie of the past 40 years."
Eleanor Ringel, Atlanta
Constitution
"Inspiring.
Told with a restraint that may make you weep. Suggests the work
of John Ford."
Michael Wilmington, Los
Angeles Times
"First-rate.
Incisive, moving, and morally instructive."
David Denby, New York
Magazine
"Riveting.
A poignant reminder that good people don't have to surrender
their beliefs even in the terror—or lethargy—of the
times."
Judy Stone, San Francisco
Chronicle
"Saw [the]
film the other evening and admired it."
Elia Kazan, director, author
"Deeply
touching and truthful. Very fine."
Irving Howe, writer
"Inspiring
and ennobling, beautiful and painful to watch, this extraordinary
film is a tribute to a kind of moral courage rarely seen but to
which mankind must, if it is to survive, aspire."
Norman Lear, producer
"Both the
best Christmas special and the best Hanukah special likely to be
seen [in 1990]. An absolutely extraordinary story about
matter-of-fact heroes. In a hundred years, it is likely to be
timely still."
Tom Shales, Washington
Post
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