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Stolen Children

DocumentaryHistoryTV Movie43m

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Storyline

June 1941, during World War II. Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler orders the mass abduction of particularly well-bred young children from Poland and the occupied territories of the Soviet Union in order to be educated in German culture, by both state schools and German families…

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Details

DirectorElisabeth Lehmann

ReleasedMar 11, 2020

StatusReleased

Original languageGerman

Budget

Not disclosed

Revenue

Not disclosed

Parental guideNot rated

Studios

DW

MDR

Cast

Elisabeth Lehmann

Elisabeth Lehmann

Narrator (voice)

Josef Sowa

Self

Alodia Witaszek

Alodia Witaszek

Self

Hermann Lüdeking

Hermann Lüdeking

Self

Janina Sowa

Self

Isabel Heinemann

Isabel Heinemann

Self

Heinrich Himmler

Heinrich Himmler

Self (archive footage)

Reviews

4 reviews · 3 critics

2 fresh · 1 rotten

E

Edward Guthmann

RTSan Francisco ChronicleJan 11, 2023

The two child actors are wonderful, but Amelio is so absorbed with formal composition and slow, self-conscious pacing that his film feels drained.

R

Roger Ebert

RTChicago Sun-TimesNov 13, 2001

Here is a movie with the spontaneity of life; watching it is like living it.

C

Carlo Cavagna

RTAboutFilm.comSep 8, 2004

A sublime movie in the neorealist tradition, in which man helps two damaged children discover, for a few days, the childhood that has been denied them.

R

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Information

Title

Stolen Children

Released

Mar 11, 2020

Rated

Not rated

Region of Origin

Germany

Original Audio

German

Runtime

43m

Status

Released

Studios

DW, MDR

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