Out of the ashes
(2004, original release: 2003)

Fiction

DVD

Call Numbers:
DVD/DRAMA/OUT

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Movies DVD/DRAMA/OUT Available

Details

PUBLISHED
[United States] : Showtime Entertainment, [2004]
©2002
DESCRIPTION

1 videodisc (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in

ISBN/ISSN
1594470030 SHO1108
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

Originally released as a motion picture in 2003

Perl spent WWII in charge of the woman's infirmary at Auschwitz. Hoping to leave her nightmares behind her after the liberation, she applies for American citizenship in 1946. However, she is hauled into military court to explain how much she "collaborated" with the Nazis during the war. The U.S. officials are especially disturbed by the number of illegal abortions Perl performed at the camp. Perl struggles to explain how she terminated the lives of the unborn to save thousands of pregnant women from the gas chambers

Based on the book "I was a doctor in Auschwitz" by Dr. Gisella Perl

Director of photography, Donald M. Morgan ; editor, Michael Brown ; music, Charles Bernstein ; costume designer, Daiva Petrulyte ; production designer, Jeff Ginn

Christine Lahti, Bruce Davison, Jonathan Cake, Jolyon Baker, Jessica Beichman, Oliver Cotton, Michelle Fine, Richard Crenna, Beau Bridges

MPAA rating: R; for violence/cruelty and some nudity

DVD, Region 1, full screen presentation; Dolby Digital

Closed-captioned

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