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A brilliant documentary on a man who is a testament to human suffering, 1 July 2008
Author: Rents (Renty_Loves_Christmas) from London, England

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Elie Wiesel's most critically acclaimed (not to mention controversial) novel "Night" is his terrifying story on his life in the Nazi death camps. His bitter commentaries on the loss of his home, family and God have made him a legend in the literary world with his fervent obsession to never hold back the truth. The truth is an important thing, and Elie Wiesel would be the first person to counterattack anyone if they even dared to say that Holocaust never happened.

Narrated by William Hurt (Children of a Lesser God [1986]), we follow Wiesel's life starting in his birthplace of Sighet, Romania to 1996 (the then present day) all the while listening to Hurt's expert narration and Wiesel's commentary on "bearing witness" not only to the Holocaust but to all other global atrocities. His message rings true—sadly, the world failed another oppressed people, the Rwandan Tutsis in a 1994 genocide that claimed the lives of over 800,000 innocents—but there is still a long way that we as people have to go if we are to learn to be able to act responsibly in the face of such crisis. "It is our duty," Wiesel says, and well it should be. "The time is now," he says, but will that time ever come? Will we, as human beings ever be able to say "never again" in the face of such human suffering without breaking our promise?

We don't know. It is human nature—it has always been human nature—to turn our backs on other people's pain in order to save our own skins, thinking to ourselves, "Oh, whatever, at least I'm alive." But that is not—and it never was—enough for Wiesel, dreading the fact that he is still alive and well when his beloved father is buried with the memories of all the poor Jewish prisoners in the middle of Eastern Europe. The subject matter is depressing, but well worth the watch.

Wiesel's chronicle of life and death is all the more riveting when seen in such visual texture.

Historical document based on Elie Wiesel's account of his return in 1994 to Romania and Auschwitz, 11 March 2008

Author: jerebron-1 from United States

A must see for everybody. Especially if you read the book "Night". This documentary is very powerful, sometimes, especially the Auschwitz part, almost too unbearable to watch. It is filmed in such a way that the emotionality is subdued but all the more powerful because of the eloquent and masterful narration of Elie Wiesel. He visits in 1994 his birth town (now in Romania, then Hungary) from where the deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau started 50 years ago, and retraces his footsteps as a child, from Romania to Auschwitz. A testament of dignity and character by a man who lost his parents, sisters, all of his family, neighbors and everybody else of his Jewish community in the gas chambers.

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