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When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit
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[Plays May 13-23 as part of the MSPIFF40 Film Festival; for more information, log on to mspfilm.org/festivals/mspiff for full schedule. It also played May 12 as part of AARP's Movies for Grownups.] Caroline Link's gut-wrenching, moving, factually inspired, award-winning, well-acted, 2-hour, 2019 film based on Judith Kerr's 1971 semi-autobiographical novel and highlighted by gorgeous cinematography and scenery in which a well-known Jewish theater critic (Oliver Masucci), who the Nazis wanted to capture, leaves Berlin with his opera composer wife (Carla Juri), 9-year daughter (Riva Krymalowski), and 13-year-old son (Marinus Hohmann) in 1933 before the German election to take refuge in Zürich, Switzerland, with the help of a zoo operator uncle (Julius von Dohnányi) and their housekeeper (Ursula Werner), and when he finds himself struggling to support his family, they move to Paris where he decides to write a script about Napoleon that eventually lands them in London.

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Year:
2021
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