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''Kapo'' (2000) is an Israeli documentary film about the Jewish kapos who collaborated with the Nazis in the concentration camps during World War II. The film was written, directed, and produced by Dan Setton, with Tor Ben Mayor and Danny Paran in conjunction with ''Spiegel TV'' of Germany and Rai 3 of Italy. It was the first Israeli film to win an International Emmy Award, which it received in the category of Best Documentary.〔(Charlie Rose Interview with Dan Setton ), April 27, 1998.〕 ==Production== Paran and Setton had collaborated in the past on a number of Holocaust-themed films, including ''The Hunt for Adolf Eichmann'' (1994), ''Mengele: The Final Account'' (1995), ''Revenge'' (1996), and ''In the Fuehrer's Shadow'' (1997) about Martin Bormann. Setton later said that they were looking for a topic for one last film about the Holocaust before they moved on to another topic, when they came across an article by Amos Nevo in the newspaper ''Yediot Ahronot''〔Barry Davis, ''"Kapo"'' in Arts and Entertainment, p. 22, the ''Jerusalem Post'', date unknown.〕 Paran added that he was shocked to learn that in the early days of Israel, Holocaust survivors persecuted the kapos that they identified, and that dozens of trials were held against them. In one instance, a kapo was even sentenced to death under the same law that would later be used to prosecute Adolf Eichmann, but he died in prison before the sentence could be carried out.〔Yoav Birenberg, אמי משלנו, ("Our own Emmy"), in ''Yediot Ahronot'', 22 November 2000.〕 Paran added that he was shocked to learn about this. Though he was the child of Holocaust survivors, he had always regarded the kapos as victims and found the effort to judge them to be "a total distortion of reality."〔 He and Setton had no intention of judging them in their film. Paran said that, "In our view, the people guilty for this horror are, of course, the Germans and not the Jews.〔 Israeli journalist Ilana Dayan, on whose show the film was first screened, later said, "This is not a film that judges or analyzes the phenomenon. This is a film that introduces the phenomenon."〔 Nevertheless, the stories often shocked the film's creators. Setton says that he suffered from insomnia long after he finished the film.〔 The plan was to combine eyewitness testimonies and interviews with legal documents describing the prosecution of kapos for collaboration with the Nazis.〔 They also interviews Haim Cohn, a justice on the Supreme Court of Israel, who had tried a former kapo in the 1960s.〔 In their search for interviews, the filmmakers they travelled around the world, looking for people who were prepared to admit that they were kapos in the concentration camps.〔 Many of the prospective interviewees slammed the phone down on them.〔 Others were more willing to tell their side of the story. In Australia, they met with Magda, who headed a subcamp of 30,000 Jewish women in Auschwitz. She claimed that she only did good to the prisoners, and that if she beat them or punished them, it was only to save their lives—"not to exterminate them."〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kapo (2000 film)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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