Miracle at Midnight

original title:
Miracle at Midnight
other titles:
(Stille Helden)
country / year of production:
USA / 1998
original length:
89 min. , color
premiere:
17 May 1998
genre:
docu dram
based on:
director:
Ken Cameron
film script:
Monte Merrick , Chris Bryant
producer:
cinematographer:
editor:
composer:
cast (role):
Sam Waterston , Mia Farrow , Justin Whalin
more:
plot synopsis:
This film takes place during World War II and deals with a Danish doctor and his wife, who help Jewish fellow men. They hide Jews in their own house, to save them from deportation and then get into the focus of the Nazis themselves.
keywords:
made-for-TV film , deportation , Holocaust , resistance, opposition , anti-semitism , fascism
war:
Second World War (1939-1945)
literature:
Raphaël Delpard. Überleben im Versteck. Jüdische Kinder 1940-1944. Bonn: Dietz, 1994.
remarks:
Was filmed in Ireland.

Won a "Golden Satellite" in 1999.
availability:
VHS NTSC, DVD, CD