The Distant Journey (1949) - Alfred Radok

Now my thoughts on this film might be a little rough. This was the first time I have ever seen a film about the Holocaust where I wanted the main characters to die. The main characters are an interracial couple, a Jewish woman and an Aryan man. Now why I wanted them dead is slightly morbid, but they are not likeable characters. The woman is selfish and stubborn and her choices cause her whole family to die. She refuses to leave when the whole family could go, and the result was that they got sent away, she was spared temporarily because she was married to an Aryan. It is her husbands love of her that gets himself in a concentration camp. This pair is a little stupid, and caused unnecessarily death to their family. Also I might add that I was actually sick of seeing films about the Holocaust where the main characters live. The survivors of the Holocaust were a small minority, yet surprisingly occupy nearly 99% of all films about it. There were some good touches, and the film is rather well made in its compositions, I just found no ability to identify with these selfish and stubborn leads.