Miniseries poster

Miniseries

(1978)

Overview

Berlin, Germany, 1935. The day Karl Weiss, a young Jewish painter, and Inga Helms, a beautiful Christian woman, marry, is the one in which both of them and the entire Weiss family are caught up in the terrifying maelstrom of the Nazi regime, the tragic storms of World War II and the unspeakable horrors of the criminal Final Solution, the Holocaust, the Shoah; while Erik Dorf, an ambitious but wimpy lawyer undertakes his fall into hell at the hands of the sinister Reinhard Heydrich.

Cast

Tom Bell as Adolf Eichmann
Tom Bell

as Adolf Eichmann

Joseph Bottoms as Rudi Weiss
Joseph Bottoms

as Rudi Weiss

Tovah Feldshuh as Helena Slomová
Tovah Feldshuh

as Helena Slomová

Rosemary Harris as Berta Palitz Weiss
Rosemary Harris

as Berta Palitz Weiss

Tony Haygarth as Heinz Müller
Tony Haygarth

as Heinz Müller

Michael Moriarty as Erik Dorf
Michael Moriarty

as Erik Dorf

Deborah Norton as Marta Dorf
Deborah Norton

as Marta Dorf

George Rose as Lowy
George Rose

as Lowy

Robert Stephens as Uncle Kurt Dorf
Robert Stephens

as Uncle Kurt Dorf

Meryl Streep as Inga Helms Weiss
Meryl Streep

as Inga Helms Weiss

Sam Wanamaker as Moses Weiss
Sam Wanamaker

as Moses Weiss

David Warner as Heydrich
David Warner

as Heydrich

Fritz Weaver as Dr. Josef Weiss
Fritz Weaver

as Dr. Josef Weiss

James Woods as Karl Weiss
James Woods

as Karl Weiss

Episodes

The Gathering Darkness poster

The Gathering Darkness 7.0

April 16, 1978

Berlin, Germany, 1935. The Weisses, a Jewish family, celebrate son Karl's marriage to Inga Helms, a Christian girl. Whe…

The Road To Babi Yar poster

The Road To Babi Yar 5.2

April 17, 1978

Inga is desperate to reunite with Karl, but her parents do not want to risk hiding her Jewish in-laws. Rudi runs away f…

The Final Solution poster

The Final Solution 5.2

April 18, 1978

Rudi and Helena escape from a long procession of Jews being marched into Babi Yar. They are eventually rescued from a h…

The Saving Remnant poster

The Saving Remnant 7.3

April 19, 1978

Erik Dorf complains to the other SS leaders that the executions of the Jews are not being efficiently done. An order is…