1 Season
4 Episode
Holocaust - Season 1 Episode 1 The Gathering Darkness
A story of hope in a time of despair
Berlin, Germany, 1935. The Weisses, a Jewish family, celebrate son Karl's marriage to Inga Helms, a Christian girl. When Erik Dorf is unable to find work as a lawyer, wife Marta urges him to apply for a Nazi regime job. Erik Dorf warns Dr. Weiss he should leave Germany. Karl is arrested and sent to Buchenwald concentration camp, and Dr. Weiss is deported to Poland. Erik Dorf continues to advance in the Nazi hierarchy.
- Year : 1978
- Country : United States of America
- Genre : Drama, War & Politics
- Studio : NBC
- Keyword : berlin, germany, based on novel or book, husband wife relationship, holocaust (shoah), ss (nazi schutzstaffel), world war ii, jew persecution, warsaw ghetto, auschwitz-birkenau concentration camp, nazi, male friendship, miniseries, historical drama, 1940s, warsaw, poland, 1930s
- Director : Gerald Green
- Cast : Tom Bell, Joseph Bottoms, Tovah Feldshuh, Rosemary Harris, Tony Haygarth, Michael Moriarty
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