The very same imagery suffuses The Tattooist of Auschwitz, Peacock's new, six-part adaptation of Heather Morris' internationally best-selling 2018 novel. ... It is ultimately, as Harvey Keitel's elderly Lali explains to Heather (Melanie Lynskey), a love story.
But that romance, between young Lali (Jonah Hauer-King) and another prisoner, Gita (Anna Prochniak), unfolds against what I can only describe as a familiar Holocaust backdrop. Viewers witness suffering that fits our broadest conceptions of the camps: sadistic Nazis; lines of naked bodies slouching towards death; Jews praying and singing to reassert their humanity.
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