My mother's courage [DVD] / A Sentana Film production with Little Bird and with WEGA Filmproduktionsges.m.b.H Veit Heiduschka and in association with Bavaria Film GmbH, a film by Michael Verhoeven ; produced and directed by Michael Verhoeven.
Title from container. Based on the novel by George Tabori's. Originally released as a motion picture in 1995. Special feature: Cast profiles. Pauline Collins, Ulrich Tukur, Heribert Sasse, Natalie Morse, Robert Giggenbach, Günter Bothur, Simon Verhoeven, Jens Harzer, Buddy Elias, Peter Radtke, Ortto Grünmandl, Hana Frejkova..
Summary:
Elsa is an outgoing woman who tackles her daily tasks cheerfully. Even when she is arrested for deportation, her unquestioning cooperation and inability to consider a montrously horrific reality demonstrate how millions of people were manipulated to their doom. Equally obedient, the German officers have their orders to follow. The true account of the deportation of over 4,000 Jews to Auschwitz in July of 1944, and how one mother's simple act of quiet defiance evaded deportation to Auschwitz - and certain death.
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