Margarita Broich

Saviors in the Night (Unter Bauern) is based on the memories of Marga Spiegel. In her narrative, published in 1965, she describes how courageous farmers in southern Münsterland hid her, her husband Siegfried {named Menne} and their little daughter Karin from 1943 until 1945, thus saving them from deportation to the extermination camps in the East. The film tells this story of survival with a sense for the absurd in daily life and not without the typical Westphalian humor.

This moving film recount the life of Anne Frank, a Jewish girl forced into hiding with her family during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands in World War II. Based on her diary, this film offers insight into the mind of a teenage girl living under Nazi persecution. Directed by Hans Steinbichler, the film features Lea van Acken as Anne Frank.