The World Will Tremble

The unspeakable horrors of the Holocaust never cease to leave audiences aghast and speechless, particularly when it comes to wondering how something like this ever could have been allowed to happen in the supposedly “civilized” world of 20th Century Europe. However, those of us alive today often fail to consider that news didn’t travel quite as fast or as widely in those days as it does currently. So, when it came to news about the Nazi death camps that claimed the lives of six million Jews in cold, calculated fashion, word of the carnage didn’t make its way onto the world stage until after…

History is replete with the terrible cost too many make to reveal the truth about mankind's darker natures and in times of conflict we are reminded that the first casualty is usually the truth. In writer and director Lior Geller's **THE WORLD WILL TREMBLE**, we are reminded about a lesser-known event that helped the world awaken to the true horrors of the Nazi regime's depths of depravity. How this information was disseminated is the basis of the film, with a small and committed group of Polish Jewish prisoners facing diminishing options for their continued survival. Held captive at Poland's…

It does seem strange nowadays when we can witness the glacial collapse in Nepal as if it were at the bottom of our garden, that back in 1942 the Nazis were free to establish the Chelmo labour camp in Poland and set about slaughtering thousands of people - and nobody knew a thing. Moreover, as we watch the duplicitously smiling face of "Lange" (David Kross) as he instructs his soldiers to welcome his recently displaced "guests" and get them ready for their welcome invogorating showers it's hard not to cringe in disgust. Fortunately for Solomon Wiener (Oliver Jackson-Cohen) and Michael…