The majority of this movie is spent developing familial relationships and the relationship of a young German boy with a young Jewish boy in a concentration camp. It is for the most part devoid of terrifying images, but it manages to convey the method and horror of the holocaust. It is a must see regardless of personal religion. It more than adequately portrays man's inhumanity to man.

Great Movie! Stunning in it's simplicity and message. One of those where you just have to stare at the screen at the end for a few minutes to fully absorb how good it was.

This movie was gripping from the beginning. The acting is superb, award winning. The last few minutes just simply tear at your heart. Have tissues ready for yourself and those sitting with you. It isn't a war movie, it's a story of humanity.

Although some critics disapproved of this fictionalized account of the holocaust set around a Nazi family, seeing it as the holocaust turned into "entertainment," such criticisms miss the point. The movie is not "entertainment," although it is so well done that your attention is riveted throughout. Instead, it is a surrealistic memorial to the horror of the holocaust, in particular the murder of Jewish children, and a reminder that this must never be allowed to happen again. If you are considering seeing this movie, please do. Do not be held back by any criticism you may have read or by your own reluctance to see a movie that you think will depress you. Certainly the movie involves something that is so horrible that it is beyond comprehension that human beings could have done. But it is not depressing. American culture tries to tell us that we can and should insulate ourselves from suffering, but this is a delusion that only keeps us from understanding life.

This film leaves you speechless at the end people in the theatre could not even leave, they just sat there for a few minutes then got up and silently left. The emotion is spell binding, anyone over 13 years of age should see this film it will leave with a sense of never wanting this to happen to any human ever again and yet knowing that it could.