I dunno, Todd. The images in the trailer are rather disturbing, but then this is a film about Nazi a deathcamp. I despise Boll's films, but I don't think there's anything in the teaser that is exploitative. Shocking? Yes. Disturbing? Certainly. Whether this will be the case with the actual finished product remains to be seen, of course.

This is pretty hard. Disturbing.
Doesn't look like trash to me too.
Hard to say how it's gonna turn out,
Boll's films got better and better,
even if they are not really good at all.

watch stoic and then tell me its a bad film. you couldnt. its so well done and makes such a great impact.

this trailer looks intense. i cant think of a german film thats this provocative and direct in recent years. in germany theres tons of films being released every year that are set in the WW2 era. slightly before, or after even. all of them try to use the horror of the war and the holocaust as a backdrop for a more personal story. this seems to hit the nail on the head and not try to tell some beautiful story around it. instead its just a portrayal of the real horror. a horror which should never be forgotten.

I don't see this as an inherently bad decision at all. Reckless, bold, flirting dangerously close to unwelcome controversy and almost certainly punching above his weight, it may be all of these things and more. However, unless Boll's intention is to make a grindhouse flick that exploits the most hideous historical context (and I don't get the impression that he intends this at all), there is nothing inherently wrong with what he is doing, based on what I am seeing in that trailer.

Yes, something like this must be done with utmost care and respect, but I could say that about countless other topics that get gleefully shorthand treatments by other films and filmmakers (I could list out a few examples, but I'll let you come up with your own). History should be sacred but it ain't. Countless films have appropriated actual wars, tragedies, genocides and individuals, chewed them up and pre-digested them into smug, self-satisfying or utterly fraudulent representations of the realities they purport to portray. Auschwitz happens to be among the most heinous and therefore sensitive of historical topics in our cultural landscape, but no topic should be a no-fly zone for filmmakers with good intentions.

The only reasonable concern I can understand having about this film is that, like Todd suggests, Boll may well be seeking a scenario to up the ante in his shock schlock resume, and he may have found the absolute apex of examples. Boll's heart may be in the right place, as far as he knows, but like Swarez mentioned, he may not have the maturity as a storyteller or sensitivity as a human being with a public voice to treat the material with the careful respect it deserves. I doubt that Boll takes time to consider that in the wrong hands, an indelicate depiction of horrors like these can bring more damage than healing.

Anyone willing to make a film about Auschwitz and the Sudan because of his own moral or personal outrage is commendable in his/her own way, and I'm truly glad that Dr. Boll has spent time and effort on projects that he clearly cares about. However, an Uwe Boll film is still an Uwe Boll film, and no matter the intent, I fear the outcome.

I think enough time has passed that this project shouldn't be that big of a deal. DEAD SNOW and the ilk are no different but yet were praised when released by many users on this very website.

I'm not sure how I feel about this. I'm having a reaction, but it is difficult to gauge. Would this be of any interest if it weren't Boll in the uniform? have their been many graphic films set within concentration camps with an interest in being accurate? That appears to be what this is attempting. Or is this just another Ilsa? Not that there's anything wrong with that. Undecided.

It's an undeniably tasteless trailer for a surely tasteless film. I get a Philosophy of a Knife vibe here. To include the tooth pulling/ nude child burning images in the TRAILER tells you the director's intentions.

Yeah, some might make an apologetic argument that the film can't be judged until seen, but the entire point of a trailer is to sell the film to the audience. Uwe has chosen to explicitly sell only the horrific imagery of the film. It's irrelevant if the film surprises with a deep and potent story or exploration of the holocaust if the film is being marketed by the filmmaker on exploitative imagery alone. It's not like the holocaust is some undocumented event. There are infinite documentaries full of real footage that will shake you to the core and plenty of serious narrative films that pull no punches. Come and See comes to mind. Simply showing "fucked up" things in a sophomoric attempt to dispel "fucked up" things is juvenile and redundant.

Agreed with Todd, for Uwe to place himself not only in the film,but in the FUCKING TRAILER as the man standing outside the chamber was a highly calculated decision and a poor choice. But hey, let's not kid ourselves. The trailer is blowing up online, we're discussing it here. So even if we're disgusted we're already helping the man by talking about it.

Uwe is intentionally trying to illicit controversy and therefore exploiting the holocaust. I too get a grindhouse feel from the way this trailer was cut. But then again, there's an entire genre of holocaust exploitation films and I do not believe that anything is sacred, but I'm also not going to give any money to see this. ever.

So conflicted, cuz on the one hand, holy wow he really went there, but on the other hand, yeah uwe boll is now the ultimate hack.

This film is no more offensive than Mel Gibson's "Passion of the Christ." I think it's bold and reasonable, not to sugar coat or deny the atrocities of the Nazi death camps. My hat is off to Uwe Boll for being willing to face the obvious criticism that will be thrown at him for making such in your face, unapologetic films as his most recent films have been.

As a filmmaker, he should push boundaries! We all should! Otherwise we are not using film for anything more than idle entertainment and escapism, which is fine but there's certainly a place for films that say "this is what happened, and there's no white washing it."

Would it have been more palatable had Christophe Gans been the Nazi officer outside the gas chamber? As far as Uwe saying his films are financed by Nazi gold, that was obviously a joke to promote controversy. Or if Quentin Tarantino had made the film in his flashy style full of catchy dialogue? Or if it was made by Steven Speilberg with his beautiful cinematography and sweeping musical scores as an audio back drop? Or if it was produced by the current king of torture porn, Eli Roth? Or is it the fact that a German filmmaker made this film, that puts a bug up everyone's ass and acknowledging yes this is what my country did and we should be ashamed of it and never let this sort of thing ever happen again?

But the fact is that it's still happening! It's happening in Darfur! And to some smaller degrees, in third world countries all over the world. So when will it stop?

And anyway, as we all know, controversy gets people talking, which Uwe always does so skillfully, which breeds curiosity and awareness, which equals sales and rentals, which equals a return of investor money, Hence Uwe's ability to keep making films even when he's so badly panned and criticized as a director.

In my book, he's someone to learn from when it comes to promoting such in your face films.

And let's face it, all films are exploitive to some degree, whether they make us cry by exploiting our sentimentality or make us scream by exploiting our baser primordial fears, or make us angry by exploiting our sense of right and wrong. All films are basically exploitation films one way or the other, whether we like it or not.

With that said I fully intend to support Uwe's continued filmmaking by watching his films, even if some of them turn my stomach with their graphic violence, as most graphically violent films often do.

My question is... has there ever been a movie based in a concentration camp that wasn't meant to shock and disgust? What the Nazi's did was outrageous and graphic... I don't see why someone like Uwe Boll can't make a movie about Nazi's that does just that. People who disagree need to relax. The people speaking out against this film are the same that praise A SERBIAN FILM so wtf, mate?

I think the community reaction has hit a nerve with Uwe:

"talks about that AUSCHWITZ teaser and the interesting point is that 90% of that “JOURNALIST” still judge me based on HOUSE OF THE DEAD and ALONE IN THE DARK they totally ignore that I made MORE MOVIES about REAL WORLDWIDE PROBLEMS and good movies as everybody else …from HEART OF AMERICA , SEED, POSTAL, RAMPAGE, STOIC , MAX SCHMELING and DARFUR

If a journalist calls himself JOURNALIST then they should do their job properly and do their research…. why RAMPAGE and DARFUR and STOIC getting great reviews from the people they saw them ..why a RON HOWARD and AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL think that DARFUR is nothing less as a masterpiece …why over 30 festivals world…wide invited the movies…why they are sold in 100 countries IF I’M SO BAD …blablabla…

its time for all the joblos, twitch, dreadcentral , aicn …etc.. to GROW up and recognize that they have no clue what they are talking about when they talk about me because they didnt paid attention to my movies ..they just enjoy bashing me…. they pay attention to laughable , unknowledged , unpolitical directors and hype them up

they think because my english is not perfect that I'm stupid ….but what other language they know? they think because I’m not promoted by big agents and studios that they have an easy target – but the movies speak and more and more people emailing me daily , buying my movies daily and SEE that they are way more int…eresting as the brainwashing hollywood bullshit what they promote

your readers are not so stupid to just agree to your 10 years anniversary of boll bashing ….some of you readers actually watched my movies and some of your readers will see that a AUSCHWITZ movie is not an insult to jews…its the opposide. in a world where 50% of the people have no education about the holocaust and even say the holocaust never happened

is it time to show that the holocaust existed and what the holocaust was. on all of my movies are working a lot of jewish crewmembers and nobody feels offended ….instead they are happy that a movie like this gets made."

Taken from his facebook page. I am impressed he even cites Twitch as being among those who need to "grow up". There is a fair bit of hate for the man, but to categorise all Twitch posters and readers as all having the same opinion? This is somewhat ironic. He clearly does not read what he said about him.

As much as I hated Seed, HOTD, etc., I did not mind Rampage. It is possible he could pull off this new project, however he will never be a GREAT director. The only thing to make his films stand out are his off-screen antics.