The Aryan Couple, (The Couple)

The Aryan Couple, (The Couple) (2004)

  • 12% of critics liked it
    (26 reviews)

  • 58% of users liked it
    (907 ratings)

In this drama set in Eastern Europe in 1944, (Martin Landau) plays Josef Krauzenberg, a wealthy Hungarian Jewish business owner who, despite his fortune, finds his life hanging in the balance as the Nazi "final solution" is being enacted throughout Eastern Europe. Under the terms of the Third… More

PG-13, 1 hr. 59 min.
Directed By
John Daly
Genres
Drama
In Theaters
Nov 18, 2005 Wide
On DVD
Oct 13, 2006
Slow Hand Releasing

Critic Reviews

  • Michael Hardy, Boston Globe

    Mainly notable for its inappropriate, blithe sentimentality. In another film this would be the usual Hollywood hokum. In a film about the most serious subject imaginable, it amounts to moral idiocy.

  • Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel

    The worst Holocaust movie ever.

  • Stephen Hunter, Washington Post

    The whole thing is coarse and vulgar, as it hides its low fascinations behind a scrim of Holocaust piety until it becomes pure kitsch.

  • Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer

    A handsome Holocaust melodrama hobbled by a transparent and cartoonish script.

  • Richard Nilsen, Arizona Republic

    Pure sentimental melodrama, with not a moment's reflection on any issue larger than the fate of our heroes.

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  • William G


    Yes, ladies and gentlemen, the Holocaust is back, more overwrought than ever before.

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