Among enemies - Walking with the Enemy
| Movie | |
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| German title | Among enemies - Walking with the Enemy |
| Original title | Walking with the Enemy |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2013 |
| length | 113 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
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| Director | Mark Schmidt |
| script | Kenny Golde |
| production | Brian Schmidt, Mark Schmidt, Shaun Schmidt, D. Scott Trawick, Christopher Williams, Randy Williams |
| music | Timothy Williams |
| camera | Dean Cundey |
| cut |
Eric L. Beason , Richard North |
| occupation | |
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Unter Feinden - Walking with the Enemy (Original title: Walking with the Enemy ) is an American historical film drama about Pinchas Tibor Rosenbaum's experiences in the Kingdom of Hungary during the Second World War , which was filmed by the director Mark Schmidt in 2013. The film tells the viewer the history of Hungary in World War II from the point of view of the Jew Pinchas Rosenbaums (in the film as Elek Cohen).
action
On the eve of the German invasion of Hungary in 1944, when the Nazi presence and anti-Semitic laws were increasing in Budapest , the Jewish radio workshop owner Jozsef Grünberg sent the two young men who work for him, Elek Cohen and Ferenc Jacobson, back from the capital to their home in the country. They receive forged baptism certificates from a Catholic priest and ask their families to use them to flee Hungary. You yourself are forced to join the Hungarian labor service and experience how other Jewish men are brutally treated and shot when they can no longer withstand the workload.
In the meantime, Carl Lutz is head of the Swiss diplomatic office in the glass house in Budapest . Allegedly anyone with a Swiss passport can safely leave Hungary for Switzerland . He received permission to issue 8,000 ID cards to individual Jews, but interpreted them as family ID cards, so he copied ID cards accordingly.
When Elek and Ferenc escape from the labor service after an Allied attack, they find their way back home and learn that their families were deported before they could escape the village. Ferenc's family's house is now occupied by other residents, and the interior of Elek's house has been destroyed. But he comes across the Swiss passports that were left behind. The two men then go back to Budapest.
There, President Miklós Horthy is secretly negotiating with Stalin about an armistice with the Allies. But the Nazi state learns of it, so that the Nazis under Otto Skorzeny kidnap his son, destroy his residence, the Buda Castle and he his overthrow, through the takeover of power by the fascist Arrow Cross , led by Ferenc Szálasi , who helped the Nazis raid on Jews helps, has to experience.
Driven by this, Elek and Ferenc begin to do everything in their power to save Jewish families. Before the Nazis focused on eliminating the Jews from Hungary, Elek meets a Jewish girl named Hannah. One evening two drunken SS officers followed her from the street to her apartment, where many Jews, including Elek, were hiding. Once there, the officers shoot Hannah's father and threaten to kill everyone if they disrupt Hannah's rape.
But Elek can kill the two of them before they can rape Hannah and a relationship develops between the two. Later, Elek, who speaks fluent German, and Ferenc dig up the corpses of the Nazi officers and take the uniforms to pretend to be Nazi officers. Under the pretext of an interrogation or a changed mission order, they can gradually save many Jews from the Arrowcruisers and deportation by placing them in the Swiss embassy and a monastery. From there, the Jews set off for Switzerland with the help of their Swiss passports. But an SS officer becomes increasingly suspicious and a situation arises in which Elek threatens to be exposed in his role when the officer shoots him. Without further ado, this officer, without being able to explain why he is shooting at a supposed comrade, is shot himself by a higher-ranking officer - and Erek survives.
It's 1957. Elek has emigrated to New York and is shown at his adopted son's wedding.
Credits or background
The end credits describe, before the credits, the further development of the people (translated) as well as motifs for the film: “This film was inspired by the courage of Pinchas Rosenbaum, whose passports and rescue missions saved thousands of lives. His family was murdered in Auschwitz along with 500,000 Hungarian Jews. SS Lieutenant Colonel Otto Skorzeny surrendered to the US Army and died in 1975. Dieter Wisliceny was hanged in 1948 for war crimes and Ferenc Szalasi was hanged in 1946 for war crimes and high treason. Adolf Eichmann fled to Argentina and was later captured by Israeli agents. He was convicted of crimes against humanity and hanged in 1962. Miklos Horthy and his son were held in German prisons until after the war. Carl Lutz founded the Swiss Legion (Das Glashaus) and is honored for the life he has saved. He died in 1976. After the war, Rosenbaum rarely spoke of his deeds. He died in 1980 and his wife in 2010. They have three children. In 2005 a memorial in honor of the victims of the Nazi and Arrow Cross terror was inaugurated in Budapest with the shoes on the banks of the Danube ”.
reception
The film received an average rating of 46% on 37 reviews on Rotten Tomatoes .
Web links
- The Departed - Walking with the Enemy in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Official website for the film
Individual evidence
- ↑ Certificate of Release for Unter Feinden - Walking with the Enemy . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF; test number: 176011 / V).
- ↑ Walking With The Enemy .