Kapo (1960) - (Movie Clip) It's No Use Being Healthy

Name: Kapo (1960) -- (Movie Clip) It's No Use Being Healthy
Uploaded: 2013-06-07T00:00:00-04:00
Duration: 4 min
Description: In a concentration camp for political prisoners and criminals, women prepare for examination by Nazi officials, hoping to appear healthy enough to be worth saving, Susan Strasberg as French teen Edith, whose captors don't know she's Jewish, in Gillo Pontecorvo's Kapo, 1960.

In a concentration camp for political prisoners and criminals, women prepare for examination by Nazi officials, hoping to appear healthy enough to be worth saving, Susan Strasberg as French teen Edith, whose captors don't know she's Jewish, in Gillo Pontecorvo's Kapo, 1960.

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