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FICTION
Mutters Courage
My Mother's Courage
Michael Verhoeven
Budapest 1944, an occupied city: A day in the life of George Tabori's mother. She is arrested by the Hungarian secret police
on the way to her sister and is brought to the West Station where around four thousand Jews have been rounded up to be deported
to Auschwitz. Those deported are transported in cattle trucks to the "Gate of Death", a little border town where they are
offloaded until they can be brought in another train to the death camp. The people are herded together in a courtjard and
wait for the train from Germany. The mother is one of those waiting. She suddenly overcomes her inbred obedience and risks
trying to break out of the seemingly inexorable transport to destruction. Through a mixture of courage, cunning and sudden
insubordination, she manages to return to Budapest.
Technical Data | |
Running time: | 93 |
Format: | 35 mm Cinemascope |
Sound: | Johannes Rommel, Julian Nott, Simon Verhoeven |
Language spoken: | English |
Production year: | 1995 |
Credits | |
Director(s): | |
Writer(s): | Michael Verhoeven (based on the novel by George Tabori) |
Cinematography: | Michael Epp, Theo Bierkens |
Editing: | David Freemann |
Key cast: | Pauline Collins, Ulrich Tukur, Natalie Morse, Robert Giggenbach, Heribert Sasse, Otto Grünmandl, Wolfgang Gasser, Johanna Mertinz, George Tabori |
Producer: | Michael Verhoeven |
Producers: | Veit Heiduschka, Michael Verhoeven, James Mitchell |
Production company
WEGA Filmproduktion
Hägelingasse 13
1140 Vienna
tel:+43 1 982 57 42
With
Sentana Filmproduktion (D), Little Bird Company Ltd. (GB)