Backdrop

Holocaust

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.

1978 |1 Season   |  Drama, War & Politics

Videos

Cast

cast

Tom Bell

Adolf Eichmann

cast

Joseph Bottoms

Rudi Weiss

cast

Tovah Feldshuh

Helena Slomová

cast

Rosemary Harris

Berta Palitz Weiss

cast

Tony Haygarth

Heinz Müller

cast

Michael Moriarty

Erik Dorf

cast

George Rose

Lowy

cast

Robert Stephens

Uncle Kurt Dorf

cast

Meryl Streep

Inga Helms Weiss

cast

Sam Wanamaker

Moses Weiss

cast

David Warner

Heydrich

cast

Fritz Weaver

Dr. Josef Weiss

cast

James Woods

Karl Weiss

More Details

Creator

Gerald Green

Status

Ended

Languages

Czech, English, French, German, Hebrew, Russian

Network

NBC