Holocaust - The Story of the Family Weiss
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Chosen as the Outstanding Limited Series (1977-78) at Emmy Award time, this original drama about two German families that are affected by events between 1935 and 1945 rivaled "Roots" in its impact on viewers in this country and sparked controversy throughout Europe as it premiered on television in one country after another. Gerald Green also won an Emmy Award for his teleplay about a Jewish family's desperate fight for survival and the parallel story of a young German lawyer, a family friend, who rises to power as an influential Nazi official.
Michael Moriarty (the lawyer), Meryl Streep (the Catholic girl who marries into the Jewish family), and one-time sex symbol Carroll Baker's daughter, Blanche (making her acting debut as the family's youngest daughter who becomes a Nazi victim after going mad following an assault) won Emmys for their performances, as did Marvin Chomsky for his direction, Morton Gould for his music score and Peggy Farrell and Edith Almoslino for their costumes.
Emmy nominations (16 in all) also were given to Fritz Weaver, Rosemary Harris, Sam Wanamaker, David Warner and Tovah Feldshuh as well as production designer Wilfrid J. Shingleton and supervising editor Stephen A. Rotter.
Cast
Gabor Vernon
Peter Capell
Nora Minor
Walter Scheuer
Peter Vogel
Tom Bell
Martin Brandt
Fritz Weaver
Nikolai Hantoff
Otto Clemens
Anthony Haygarth
Ian Odle
Bruno Thost
Klaus Guth
Bernd Hall
John Rees
Nigel Hawthorne
Elvira Neustadtl
Gottfried Blahovsky
Michael Beck
Nina Sandt
Wolfgang Lesowsky
Stanley Lebor
Toby Salaman
Charles Korvin
Peter Neusser
Marius Goring
Peter Weihs
Mirian Mahler
Jim Anbach
Blanche Baker
Jeremy Levy
David Warner
Vera Borek
David Daker
Werner Kreindl
Bob Sherman
Ervon Steinhauser
Isolde Barth
Sam Wanamaker
Deborah Norton
T.p. Mckenna
Edward Gilkrist
Kate Jaenicke
Peter Garell
Llewellyn Rees
Ulli Chivall
John Collin
Stephan Paryla
Hubert Berger
Joe Trummer
Harry Horisch
Vernon Dobtcheff
Karl Hoss
George Pravda
Rosemary Harris
Edward Hardwicke
Oscar Quitak
George Rose
Osman Ragheb
Murray Salem
Gotz Von Langheim
Cyril Shaps
Ernst Hausknost
Hanna Lessing
Joseph Bottoms
Sean Arnold
Tovah Feldshuh
Ian Holm
Karl Schulz
Robert Stephens
Ortwin Speer
Meryl Streep
Hans Meyer
Helmut Janatsch
Courtney Hill
Kathina Kaiser
Irene Prador
Rudolf Melichar
Michael Moriarty
Lee Montague
James Woods
Crew
Angela Allen
Edith Almoslino
William Anderson
Renate Arbes
Robert Berger
Arbit Blatas
Stan Bochner
Herbert Brodkin
May A Capsaskis
Gerhard Ehringer
Peggy Farrell
Leonhard Gmur
Morton Gould
Gerald Green
Bernard Hajdenberg
Maxi Harelter
Theo Harisch
Marilyn Johnson
Nancy Kanter
Hans-jurgen Kiebach
Helmut Klee
Craig Mckay
Judith Mullen
Helga Ploiner
Osman Ragheb
Bob Reitano
Richard Richtsfeld
Stephen Rotter
Dan Sable
Wilfrid Shingleton
Jimmy Turrell
Marijan Vajda
Richard Vorisek
Brian West
Brian West
Jim Willis
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Aired in United States April 16, 1978
Released in United States on Video May 4, 1994
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