None Shall Escape

I was first attracted to the 1944 film "None Shall Escape" because the music was by Ernst Toch, one of my favorite twentieth-century composers. And then I remained amazed at the frankness and the prescience of the film, which was made during World War II.

You can watch it on YouTube here.

Silvie Pierre wrote an excellent essay about the film in 2000, which you can read in an English translation here.