My Mother's Courage

AWARDS

BAVARIAN FILM AWARDS Best Cinematography, Best Production 1996
SILVER AWARD German Film Awards 1995
CRYSTAL GLOBE AWARD NOMINATION Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 1995

FESTIVAL SCREENINGS

Washington Jewish Film Festival (2009)

From Michael Verhoeven comes this stunning cinematic version of Hungarian author George Tabori's play and novel. Shifting between Nazi-occupied Budapest and present-day Berlin, the film artfully depicts the true story of what happened to Tabori's mother Elsa on a summer's day in 1944.

Pauline Collins' stellar performance as Elsa, plucked from her everyday life and thrown into the surreal nightmare of mass deportation, affords an extraordinary account of one individual's escape from death juxtaposed with that of the millions who did not survive. Verhoeven's skillful adaptation of Tabori's satirical, dark tale about fate and human cruelty forges new ground in cinematic portrayals of the Holocaust.

CRITICAL ACCLAIM

"My Mother's Courage shows that blue skies and sunshine can be as devastating as night and fog."
-J. Hoberman, Village Voice

"A film about the Holocaust that, after the few memorable films on the subject and the flood of lesser ones, needs to be seen."
- Stanley Kaufmann, New Republic

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ALSO DIRECTED BY MICHAEL VERHOEVEN

The White Rose

The Nasty Girl

The Legend of Mrs. Goldman and the Almighty God

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