Rescuers: Stories of Courage - Two Women
Drama
History
War
TV Movie
Two stories of heroism and profound courage during the Holocaust.
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.
1997-10-05
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Cast
Director
Peter Bogdanovich
Elizabeth Perkins as Gertruda Babilinska (segment "Mamusha")
Sela Ward as Marie-Rose Gineste (segment "Woman on a Bicycle")
Anne Jackson as Maman (segment "Woman on a Bicycle")
Fritz Weaver as Father Theas (segment "Woman on a Bicycle")
Al Waxman as Dr. Jakob Weinstock (segment "Mamusha")
Nicky Guadagni as Lydia Stolowitsky (segment "Mamusha")
George Morfogen as Adult Michael - Narrator (segment "Mamusha")
Mark Humphrey as Tomas Kolchak (segment "Mamusha")
Gerard Parkes as Father Daniel (segment "Mamusha")
Stuart Stone as Aaron Weinstock (segment "Mamusha")
Nancy Beatty as Ella Weinstock (segment "Mamusha")
Gerry Quigley as Franek (segment "Mamusha")
Douglas O'Keeffe as First S.S. Guard (segment "Mamusha")
Mark Lutz as Soldier #1 (segment "Mamusha")
Michael Landes as Rene Klein (segment "Woman on a Bicycle")
Brian Paul as Inspector Fernera (segment "Woman on a Bicycle")
Barna Moricz as Jules Debret (segment "Woman on a Bicycle")
Louise Stratten as Annette (segment "Woman on a Bicycle")
Ron Tough as One-Armed Man (segment "Woman on a Bicycle")
Antonia Bogdanovich as Nicole Bloch (segment "Woman on a Bicycle")