Madeleine Rayner posted: " Rating: 4/5 The story of a Jewish family's escape from 1933 Berlin to Zürich before moving to Paris, and finally, to London, as told from the perspective of nine year-old Anna Kemper. Anna is too busy with schoolwork and friends to notice"
The story of a Jewish family's escape from 1933 Berlin to Zürich before moving to Paris, and finally, to London, as told from the perspective of nine year-old Anna Kemper.
Anna is too busy with schoolwork and friends to notice Hitler's face glaring from posters plastered all over 1933 Berlin.
But when her father suddenly vanishes, the family is secretly hurried out of Germany.
Anna begins to understand life will never be the same as she and her family navigate unfamiliar lands and cope with the challenges of being refugees.
One of the scenes in Paris shows the second hand book market on the embankment on the Seine River. I had to refrain from yelling "I've been there!". It was 2014, and my last visit (hopefully not my last ever) to Paris, and a stroll along the Seine.
I KNOW! The movie is set in the 1930s, but the book market has a notice that it's been operating in the same location since the 1800s! So it could well have been the same one.
Back to the film, it's absolutely delightful because it is Anna's story told against the backdrop of Europe from 1933 to 1935. So there's an indication of what was happening in Germany at the time, but no views of it.
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