I watched the trailer for this and was intrigued, even though I could not understand the language! Thank you, subtitles - that counts as reading, right? I binged this over 2 days and enjoyed it. The story plot was somewhat familiar - evil looking for object to complete a set to gain ultimate power, what was different was the origin of the object. I don't recall another film having this particular sub-plot, but to me, this one works. The writer did a great job of explaining the significance of it and blending it in throughout the film. The scenes were well-acted for the most part. Although it was easy to see a budding romance, I will say it did not end as I expected. Segunda parte, ¿alguien? ¡Yo espero que sí!
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@ltjoy1241 Yes, three seasons are planned.
I would like to know how much of this actually happened.
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@kingy72 Peter Bert, who bought the rights of the book for Paramount, wrote an article in Deadline about how Albert S. Ruddy's version isn't really true:
https://deadline.com/2022/04/the-offer-facts-the-godfather-production-peter-bart-1235001960/
Based on a book that did not do the necessary historical verification with many errors and falsehoods, this series announced as a great production falls into all the excesses and clichés of Nazi representation, with embarrassing sequences of violence (German officers laughing evilly while hitting children). The script introduces Heather Morris (Melanie Lynskey) and how her conversations with Lali Sokolov (Harvey Keitel) affect her emotionally, but continually indicates that he is an old man who has nightmares and hallucinations, a not-so-subtle way of disassociating itself from the criticism to the veracity of the story.
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@mmccannon Possibly yes, but the problem is the way of representing it. Cruelty can be reflected without becoming caricature. The book was considered in a fact-checking report by the Auschwitz Memorial Research Center in 2018 as "not recommended as a valuable title for people who want to explore and understand the history of KL Auschwitz."
