Every year for the last few years I have gone to the Jewish Film Festival in San Francisco and Berkeley with my family. They always have really interesting foreign films and sometimes American ones that have to do with anything Jewish. They could be funny or sad , documentaries, musical , gangster, cartoony, anything! So last night was opening night in San Francisco and they showed a really touching film called Saviors in the Night from Germany. Directed by Ludi Boeken.
What is really cool about this film festival is that they have some of the actors and director answer questions right after you watch them in the film! So they are right there on stage and with this one they had the woman that this story was based on. It was based on Marga Spiegel's memoir.
This movie was about her and her husband and daughter during World War 2 1943->. They escape their town in Germany right when Jews are being deported with the Nazis. They hide with a family of farmers, who are Catholic and risking their lives to shelter Jews.
I do not want to say too much about this movie but if you can find a way to watch it, hopefully it will be in the Oscars some how, you really should watch it! I like how it does not show concentration camps, it is not that part of World War 2, it is showing what life was like for the Jews who were trying to avoid going to these horrid camps. If you want to read more about it, just look it up because I do not want to give anything away!
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