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Monday, May 18, 2020

Miracle At Midnight (1998)

Set in German occupied Denmark in 1943 during WWII, a gentile doctor (Sam Waterston) finds out that the Nazis plan to round up all the Jews in Copenhagen beginning at midnight at the start of Rosh Hashannah. Fearing for her family, his wife (Mia Farrow) is reluctant to cooperate but the doctor conceives a plan for hiding Jews and transporting them to the coast where they can be put on boats and taken to Sweden which has agreed to take them. This is a fictionalized drama inspired by actual events. Over 90% of Danish Jews are estimated to have survived the Holocaust because of the Danish intervention. It's rather conventional in its storytelling but Farrow and Waterston are very good and it was interesting to see how (unlike the German people who looked the other way for the most part) the Danish people banded together to save their fellow citizens. A different but fascinating look at the horror of the Holocaust. Actually filmed in Ireland rather than Denmark. With Justin Whalin, Patrick Malahide and Nicola Mycroft.

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