Anna's homecoming

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Movie
Original title Anna's homecoming
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2003
length 90 minutes
Rod
Director Xaver Schwarzenberger
script Herbert Knopp
production Susanne Wagner
music Arthur Lauber
camera Xaver Schwarzenberger
cut Helga Borsche
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Anna's Homecoming , a TV drama by Xaver Schwarzenberger from 2003 , describes how the Catholic maid Anna Schweighofer ( Veronica Ferres ) saved the Jewish child Franziska Goldberg (Julia Krombach) from deportation in Munich in 1942 when her parents ( played by Andrea Eckert and Götz Spielmann ) to be picked up for a transport to the Auschwitz concentration camp . Anna then passes Franziska off as her illegitimate child and brings it to her family in the fictional Drachselreuth in the Bavarian Forest in relative safety.

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Anna Schweighofer worked as a housemaid for a family in Munich in 1942 . She lives on a spacious property and prepares a large feast with bacon, wine and cigars for the visit of the Reichsführer of the SS . Anna withholds part of the meal and takes it to her former employer, the Goldberg family, where she worked as a nanny from 1932 to 1939. The Goldbergs are starving and living in hiding in the back of their bookstore, which has been vandalized. They “sit on packed suitcases” because they want to flee to Franziska's aunt the next day at around six in the morning by train via Zurich to London. When Anna puts little Franziska to bed as before and sings her a lullaby in Yiddish , she hears the Gestapo knocking on the apartment door. This then penetrates the apartment and arrests Mr. and Mrs. Goldberg. Anna can quickly hide the child in a closet. When two uniformed men walk through the building, she stands behind a door so as not to be arrested by the Gestapo.

Anna brings Franziska to her family in Drachselreuth in the Bavarian Forest and passes her off as her illegitimate child. Anna's brother Toni, who is mayor and local group leader of the NSDAP , lives there . Ten years ago, after the death of her father, she had broken off contact with her brother because of an inheritance dispute and had moved away with her mother Josefa. After Toni's wife Helene has spoken out in favor of accepting her sister-in-law, Toni reluctantly takes his sister and Franziska into the inn they have inherited. When Toni kept asking about Franziska's father, she lied to him that the father was an officer of the Wehrmacht , whom she met in 1933 at a race on the Riem racecourse and with whom she went to an “Amazon Festival” in Nymphenburg Park. Toni finally organizes an Aryan certificate and a passport for his "illegitimate niece" , complaining "[...] that cost me twenty kilos of ox loin [...]". In thanks, Anna kisses her brother. When he mentioned that Franziska Schweighofer was not known to the Munich registration office, she replied: "[...] I forgot to tell you that she was born in Landshut?"

Private Kurt Ramsauer, whose engagement to Anna ten years ago was broken off due to his father's refused consent, still loves Anna. Kurt hears that Franziska was born six months after Anna left him. He then wants to marry Anna. Anna herself is asked by a clergyman in the confessional whether Franziska is a Jewish girl. When Anna leaves the confessional in silence, it breaks the confessional secret. Toni then throws them both out of the house. Anna flees with the girl to her former fiancé Kurt and reveals Franziska's secret. Kurt first tries to dissuade her from hiding Franzi further because he considers it too dangerous - he now trusts the Nazis to do everything. When Anna remains steadfast, he not only gives in, but proposes to her and says: "Then she should become Franzi Ramsauer [...]". While Anna spends the night with Kurt, Gregor Brunner waits the whole night in front of the Ramsauers' homestead for Anna because he also desires her. Due to his good connections as SS-Obersturmbannführer , Gregor had previously learned who Anna was employed by and that the daughter of the Goldberg family could not be arrested. With that he had blackmailed and raped Anna. After Anna has passed the waiting man without a word and doesn't want to know anything more about him, he wants to arrest Anna and Franziska. When they run away, he takes his gun to shoot Anna. Kurt beats Gregor and shoots him with his rifle. The mayor mentions in an official report that Gregor was killed in a low-flying attack. Kurt later falls at the front. When the place is taken by US troops, Toni is arrested. However, he is released when his sister testifies that Toni helped Franziska even though he knew that she was a Jewish girl.

Anna sends the girl to her aunt Lydia in London and meets her again years later in a “Goldberg” bookshop in Munich, which now belongs to Franziska Goldberg.

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The film contains various errors that probably would not have occurred in historical Germany:

  • The men who are deporting Franziska's parents allegedly belong to the Gestapo , but they wear SA and party uniforms.
  • The Goldbergs reportedly plan to take the train to Switzerland and then on to London. In 1942, however, the Swiss border with the German Reich was hermetically sealed, and Switzerland itself was completely enclosed by German troops.
  • A soldier on home leave does not bring a weapon home.
  • A unit of the SS (strangely enough not the police) carried out vehicle searches on a remote country road, although there was no apparent reason for this.
  • The mayor of a Bavarian village at the end of the world announces to the farmers in the local pub that the “Führer” has decided on the “ final solution to the Jewish question ”.

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