Becomes a standard-issue escape drama, but it's very well done.

The subject is so momentous that any efforts not reaching a certain level of quality can come across as exploitative. Lior Geller’s independent feature doesn’t reach those heights, but it redeems itself with the obvious care that’s gone into it.

Some stories need to be told over and over, not because we enjoy the telling, but because forgetting them is a kind of violence all its own.

The World Will Tremble is a harrowing depiction of the beginning of the Holocaust and how the Nazis' heinous murders of Jewish people were kept a secret from the world for too long. Oliver Jackson-Cohen leads the cast with a riveting performance.