Nominated for 1 Oscar
- 3 wins & 4 nominations total

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Susan Strasberg

Edith…

Laurent Terzieff

Sascha

Emmanuelle Riva

Thérèse

Didi Perego

Sofia

Gianni Garko

Karl- il soldato tedesco

Annabella Besi

Carole

Graziella Galvani

Isabelle

Paola Pitagora

Georgette

Eleonora Bellinzaghi

Bruno Scipioni

Dragomir Felba

Salomon Lejtman

Mira Dinulovic

La kapò Alisa

Semka Sokolovic-Bertok

Une detenuta
(as Semca Sokolovic)

Dirjana Dojic

Ninette
(as Dirjana Dojc)

Graziella Durano

Une detenuta
(uncredited)

Sima Janicijevic

Il medico di Auschwitz
(uncredited)

Rastislav Jovic

Yanko Milovich
(uncredited)

Dusan Perkovic

Il commandante tedesco
(uncredited)

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Trivia
The producers imposed a romance line in the story and also another ending, different from the one Pontecorvo, the director, wished to shoot.

Goofs
In the opening scene, Edith walks past some shops on her way back home. One of the shops look like it belongs to the booming 1950s than the more austere WWII period. There is a toy car or baby push car in the store window that shows the typical car design of the 1950s.

Quotes
Edith, alias Nicole Niepas: [to Sasha] Your mother won't like me, I'm not a good girl, and my name's not Nicole, I'm a Jew.

Connections
Featured in Pontecorvo: The Dictatorship of Truth (1992)

The story of a lady taken arrested by nazis who became a boss of her colleagues in prison.

If somebody would like to see what was a nazi prison, one has to see this movies. It showed with realism the nature of cruelty by nazis and the ways they used some of their prisoners to watch the movement of the rest and to combat effectively any possible plot against them. Pontecorvo is a director with a few films, but all of them always show real facts of the history, and this film is not an exception