Holocaust (1978)

Drama · History · Romance

Berlin, Germany, 1935. The day Karl Weiss, a Jewish painter, and Inga Helms, a Christian woman, marry, is the one in which both of them and the entire Weiss family are caught up in the maelstrom of the Nazi regime, the storms of World War II and the horrors of the criminal Final Solution, the Holocaust, the Shoah; while Erik Dorf, an ambitious lawyer, undertakes his fall into hell at the hands of the sinister Reinhard Heydrich.

IMDb rating: 8.0 (6,047 votes)
Seasons: 1
Language: EN
Type: Mini-series

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Cast

Tom Bell Adolf Eichmann
Joseph Bottoms Rudi Weiss
Tovah Feldshuh Helena Slomová
Rosemary Harris Berta Palitz Weiss
Tony Haygarth Heinz Müller
Michael Moriarty Erik Dorf

Seasons

Season 1 (1978)

7.84 avg 5 episodes 7.9 → 7.5 90 min avg

Season 1 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Part 1: 1935-1940	7.9	279
2	Part 2: 1941-1942	7.9	251
3	Part 3: 1942-1944	7.8	215
4	Part 4: 1944-1945	8.1	229
5	Part 5: The Liberation	7.5	70