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The Tattooist Of Auschwitz review: Love endures amid the soul-searing cruelty in a superb Holocaust drama, writes CHRISTOPHER STEVENS
This adaptation of Heather Morris's 2018 bestseller, The Tattooist of Auschwitz. based on Lali Sokolov's true story, does not flinch from the soul-searing cruelty of the death camps.
In the opening shots of The Tattooist Of Auschwitz, the Holocaust survivor Lali Sokolov (Jonah Hauer-King) is taken through the jaws of death into 'Bunker 1', the killing room, by an SS soldier. At the end of his life, Sokolov (played in old age by Harvey Keitel) describes the moment in more detail to naive, middle-aged mother Heather Morris (Melanie Lynskey), who is helping him to write his memoirs. Viewers who have seen the outstanding Cold War spy drama Deutschland 83 will know Nay is an actor capable of exceptional complexity, and here he makes the Nazi guard almost hypnotically repulsive.
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