Rotten
A handsome Holocaust melodrama hobbled by a transparent and cartoonish script.
Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer
Overview
A German Jewish industrialist is forced to hand over his business to the Nazis in order to ensure his family's safe passage out of Germany.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
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12%
Tomatometer
Rotten
Mainly notable for its inappropriate, blithe sentimentality. In another film this would be the usual Hollywood hokum. In a film about the most serious subject imaginable, it amounts to moral idiocy.
Michael Hardy, Boston Globe
Rotten
The worst Holocaust movie ever.
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel
Rotten
The whole thing is coarse and vulgar, as it hides its low fascinations behind a scrim of Holocaust piety until it becomes pure kitsch.
Stephen Hunter, Washington Post
Rotten
Pure sentimental melodrama, with not a moment's reflection on any issue larger than the fate of our heroes.
Richard Nilsen, Arizona Republic
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