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My Mother’s Courage (1995) Plot Summary Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 1995 · 93 mins · German
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- Directed by
- Michael Verhoeven
- Starring
- Ulrich Tukur, Pauline Collins, Simon Verhoeven, Miroslav Táborský, Tatiana Dyková, Liliyan Malkina
Through George Tabori’s narration, the film chronicles the July 1944 deportation of about 4,000 Budapest Jews to Auschwitz and then traces the narrator’s mother’s remarkable survival. She evades capture thanks to a lucky coincidence, her own courage and aid from an unlikely source, revealing how chance and humanity intersect amid tragedy.
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