Kapo (1960)
Directed by Gillo Pontecorvo
Determined to survive at any price, Edith, a young Jewish woman deported to an extermination camp, manages to survive by accepting the role of kapo, a privileged prisoner whose mission is to ruthlessly guard other prisoners.
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What critics compared Kapo to
The classic text about the danger of overstepping the mark in this way is Jacques Rivette’s 1961 Cahiers du Cinéma piece “On Abjection,” in which he ferociously condemned a certain tracking shot in Gillo Pontecorvo’s Holocaust drama Kapò (1960).