MY MOTHER'S COURAGE - DVD

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• Release Year: 1996
• Genre: Drama
• Plot: 1944 — Nazi Occupied Budapest ; ; Elsa is an outgoing woman who tackles her daily tasks cheerfully, despite the fact that her husband has been taken away and her once friendly neighbors now behave with distrust. Even when she is absurdly arrested for deportation, her unquestioning co-operation and inability to consider a monstrously horrific reality demonstrate how millions of people were manipulated to their doom. Equally obedient, the disciplined German officers have orders to follow, which they efficiently execute with cold indifference. In this fateful climate, Elsa's naïve belief in human goodness is an ironic contrast to the unbelievably real human cruelty of the Holocaust. ; ; Based on acclaimed author George Tabori's novel and play, this haunting and at times humorous film is a macabre snapshot in time of how his mother's simple act of quiet defiance evaded deportation to Auschwitz - and certain death.
• Cast: George Tabori, Pauline Collins, Ulrich Tukur, Natalie Morse, Robert Giggenbach, Heribert Sasse, Günter Bothur, Simon Verhoeven, Buddy Elias, Peter Radtke, Otto Grünmandl, Hana Frejková, Jens Harzer, Tatiana Vilhelmová, István Iglódi, Eddi Arent, Wolfgang Gasser, Johanna Mertinz, Jindrich Bonaventura, Jirí Knot, Stanislav Tríska, Vladimir Volek, Jitka Smutná, Horst Hiemer, Peter Mohrdieck, Axel Scholtz, Alexandra Millard, Jirí Ornest, Petra Berndt, Josef Vajnar, Eva Holubová, Radka Mayerova, Miroslav Táborský, Jaroslav Tesitel, Ondrej Skoch, Jaroslava Kretschmerová, Petr Billy, Liliyan Malkina, Petr Janis, Mikulas Roth, Darlene Charles, Ladislav Koci, Valérie Kaplanová, Rudolf Stärz, Stanislav Hajek, Arnost Goldflam, Marcela Kralova, Jiri Rajsky-Kastner, Jana Altmanová, Frantisek Kuhs, Vera Kuvierova, Jirí Kvasnický, Jirí Ployhar, Milena Sajdkova, Otto Sevcík, Aleas Spurny, Frantisek Stanek, Martin Zadcek
• Director: Michael Verhoeven
• Runtime: 1:29
• Company: BFS
• Media Format: Movie