WINDERMERE CHILDREN - DVD-PBS

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• Release Year: 2020
• Genre: Documentary, Drama, War
• Plot: Augus, 1945. A coachload of children arrives at the Calgarth Estate by Lake Windermere. They are child survivors of the Nazi Holocaust that has devastated Europe's Jewish population. Carrying only the clothes they wear and a few meager possessions, they bear the emotional and physical scars of all they have suffered.; ; Charged with looking after them is Oscar Friedmann, a German-born child psychologist. He and his team of counselors have just four months to help reclaim their lives. By the lake, the children eat, learn English, play football and ride bikes. They yearn for news of their loved ones. Some locals taunt them, but they are embraced by others. In this environment, they begin to heal.; ; This is the stark, moving and ultimately redemptive story of the bonds the children make with one another, and of how the friendships forged at Windermere become a lifeline to a fruitful future. In the absence of relatives, they find family in each other.; ; Disk 2; The Windermere Children: In their own words; This powerful companion documentary tells the story of the pioneering project to rehabilitate 300 young orphaned Jewish refugees who survived the Holocaust, and how they began new lives on the shores of Lake Windermere in England's Lake District.;
• Cast: Thomas Kretschmann, Romola Garai, Iain Glen, Tim McInnerny, Marcel Sabat, Philipp Christopher, Anna Schumacher, Konstantin Frank, Kacper Swietek, Marek Wroblewski, Kuba Sprenger, Pascal Fischer, Anna Maciejewska, Tomasz Studzinski, Jakub Jankiewicz, Lukasz Zieba, Alicia Pokladecka, India Angerman, B.J. Hogg, Cal O'Driscoll, Colm McCready, Jonathan Cameron, Tara Cush, Ali White, Thomas Finnegan, Arek Hersh, Chaim Olmer, Ben Helfgott, Schmuel Lasker, Icek Alterman, Michael Samuels, Simon Block
• Director: Michael Samuels
• Runtime: 2:25
• Company: Wall To Wall Television, British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), Warner Bros
• Media Format: Movie