Kapo shows how humans can live in hope to the last gasp, no matter how minuscule their chances of survival. At the point of a gun the prisoners dug their own burial trench. Knowing their almost inevitable fate, they toiled to create their own final resting place. Who cares where you lay when you're dead!. Get your own back and at least make the bastards work a bit to bury their victims. But 'almost' is the key word in the inevitable fate. Between the threat and the actual bullet a bolt of lightning might strike the enemy and save them! But let me not give away the ending to this obscure yet excellent film portrayal of the brutality of war.
I showed this film to my daughter who is doing Modern History at school. I chose it because it is one of the least glorifying war films I have seen. No one escapes modern moral scrutiny here and there are absolutely no winners at least not for humans.
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