The Nazi Officer's Wife with Susan Sarandon: DVD Cover

    The Nazi Officer's Wife Director: Liz Garbus Cast: Susan Sarandon, Julia Ormond

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    • DVD Release Date: 07/29/2003
    • Original Release: 2002
    • Rating: Not Rated
    • Sales Rank: 41,049

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    Side #1 --
    1. A Train to Munich [4:35]
    2. High School Years [5:51]
    3. Political Unrest [5:01]
    4. Germans Enter Austria [6:33]
    5. Exile [4:36]
    6. Goodbye to Mother [7:51]
    7. Changing Identities [13:14]
    8. New Life i Munich [11:59]
    9. Aryan Marriage [7:35]
    10. A Child in the Reich [8:30]
    11. Edith Again [13:16]
    12. A New Life [7:01]
    13. Credits [1:02]

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    Filmmaker Liz Garbus (The Farm: Angola, USA) documents the extraordinary story of Edith Hahn in The Nazi Officer's Wife. Using old newsreel footage, personal photos, and interviews with Hahn, her daughter Angela, and various acquaintances, with narration by Susan Sarandon and Julia Ormond (who reads excerpts from Hahn's autobiography), the film explores how Hahn, a Jewish woman living in Vienna during the Nazi takeover of Austria, survived. The film begins the tale with Hahn's childhood, including her education, the death of her father, and her college romance with a half-Jewish intellectual. As the Nazis grew in power, and Hahn's sisters fled for Palestine, he insisted that they would be safe in Vienna. Soon, Hahn, a law student, found herself in a slave labor camp. By the time she returned to Vienna, her mother had been sent to a concentration camp in Poland. Certain to be deported herself, Hahn chose instead to remove the yellow star from her clothing and go into hiding. Finding help from the unlikeliest of sources (including two prominent members of the Nazi party,) Hahn took on a new identity as a young Aryan woman, and left Vienna, traveling to Munich, in the heart of the Third Reich, where she got a job working as a nurse's aide for the Red Cross. There, visiting a museum, she met a bright and well-spoken Nazi, Werner Vetter, who approached her. Soon, against Hahn's better judgment, the two had started a romance, which eventually led to an unlikely marriage and a child. All the while, Hahn kept up her disguise to all but her husband, even suppressing her own vital personality, and taking on the role of a subservient Aryan housewife. Josh Ralske, All Movie Guide

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