None Shall Escape is one of a kind, and we’re lucky to be able to present this rare screening. Made in 1943, this is the only wartime Hollywood drama to depict what would later be called the Holocaust. Scripted by Lester Cole (later one of the House Un-American Activities’ “Hollywood Ten”), the film anticipates the end of World War II and the Nuremberg Trials as it stages an “International War Crimes Commission” in Warsaw to investigate a Nazi officer, Wilhelm Grimm (Alexander Knox), on trial for crimes against humanity. The story was conceived by Alfred Neumann and Joseph Than, who were European émigrés, as was Hungarian-born director André de Toth. This 73-year-old film, the only American anti-Nazi picture made during the war to address the issue of war crimes, the atrocities against the Jews, and the Holocaust, explores the human and inhumane nature of mortal sin with extraordinary and powerful prescience.

Presented in 35mm