TV series · 1978
Holocaust
“A story of hope in a time of despair”
First aired 16 April 1978 Drama / War & Politics TMDB ↗
Berlin, Germany, 1935. The day Karl Weiss, a Jewish painter, and Inga Helms, a Christian woman, marry, is the one in which both of them and the entire Weiss family are caught up in the maelstrom of the Nazi regime, the storms of World War II and the horrors of the criminal Final Solution, the Holocaust, the Shoah; while Erik Dorf, an ambitious lawyer, undertakes his fall into hell at the hands of the sinister Reinhard Heydrich.
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Sam Wanamaker
as Moses Weiss
Fritz Weaver
as Dr. Josef Weiss
David Warner
as Heydrich
Deborah Norton
as Marta Dorf
James Woods
as Karl Weiss
Meryl Streep
as Inga Helms Weiss
Everyone else (27) ↓
Martin Brandt
as Rabbi Karsh
Nora Minor
as Frau Palitz
George Pravda
as Otto Felscher
George Rose
as Lowy
Käte Jaenicke
as Frau Lowy
Cyril Shaps
as Weinberg
Hans Meyer
Hans Meyer
as Ernst Kaltenbrunner
Werner Kreindl
as Herr Helms
Rosemary Harris
as Berta Palitz Weiss
Lee Montague
as Uncle Sasha
Nina Sandt
as Frau Helms
T. P. McKenna
as Blobel
Ian Holm
as Heinrich Himmler
Robert Stephens
as Uncle Kurt Dorf
Tom Bell
as Adolf Eichmann
Stanley Lebor
as Zalman
Peter Vogel
as Emil Frey
Michael Moriarty
as Erik Dorf
Tony Haygarth
as Heinz Müller
Michael Beck
as Hans Helms
Tovah Feldshuh
as Helena Slomová
Isolde Barth
as Eva
Erwin Steinhauer
as Buchenwald Typist
Erwin Steinhauer
Joseph Bottoms
as Rudi Weiss
Blanche Baker
as Anna Weiss