Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Surviving Hitler

Jutta and Helmuth were two people in love just looking for a chance to make a life together, but such chances were extremely hard to come by in Nazi Germany, especially when Jutta discovers that under the new German law, she is Jewish. Using a combination of archival footage, home movies and modern interviews, director John Keith Wasson weaves a hypnotic tale that takes you beyond the more known facts about WWII and Nazi Germany into the relatively small world of two people who make a stand for love and for what is right. It’s short running time (just over 60 minutes) is a bit frustrating, but only because the story is so compelling, but the ending makes up for it.

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