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Rescuers: Stories of Courage - Two Women (1997)
Directed by Peter Bogdanovich
Overview
First in a series of anthology films dealing with Christians who put their lives on the line to help rescue Jews from the Holocaust. In the first of two short films, “Mamusha,” as the Nazis invade her country, a Polish Catholic housekeeper takes under her wing the youngster in the Jewish family for whom she is employed, and shepherds him through WWII in hopes of ultimately getting him repatriated to Palestine. In “Woman on a Bicycle,” an unmarried French woman is pressed into service by the church to distribute underground communication pamphlets for the Resistance and ultimately ends up helping the church shelter 19 Jews.
Length 106 minutes
Actors
Elizabeth Perkins | Sela Ward | Anne Jackson | Fritz Weaver | Al Waxman | Nicky Guadagni | George Morfogen | Michael Cameron | Fraser McGregor | Mark Humphrey | Pixie Bigelow | Gerard Parkes | Stuart Stone | Nancy Beatty | Gerry Quigley | Douglas O'Keeffe | Wally Bolland | Andrew Dolha | John Weisgerber | David Jansen | Mark Lutz | Phil Morrison | Paul Firestone | Sean Dick | Alex Seeds | Nell Schaap | Michael Landes | Theresa Tova | Brian Paul | Barna Moricz | Louise Stratten | Ed Sahely | Jack Jessop | Ron Tough | Marvin Karon | Antonia Bogdanovich | Judy White | Brittany Whittingstall | Cori Atlin | Leslie Cottle | Hugo Dann