Miracle at Midnight 1998

     This film is based on a true story and the setting is September 1943.  Dr. Karl Koster is a Danish physician and he lives in Copenhagen with his wife Doris.  They have a teenage son Henrik and a younger daughter Else.  Dr. Koster is Chief Surgeon of Christiana Hospital and he protects a young resistance fighter when the Nazis shoot him.  Henrik is secretly working for a group commandeering weapons sent to the Nazis.  On September 29, 1943, it is three years into the occupation of Copenhagen by the Germans.  Doctor Koster learns that all Danish Jews will be arrested on Friday at midnight.  This is the beginning of Rosh Hashanah.  The Koster’s start their work by hiding Jews in their attic.  As soon as they can, they take them to be sent away in small boats.  Sweden has agreed to shelter all Jews that are able to escape to this country.  Soon, the Koster’s are fleeing by boat to Sweden also.  The Nazis take Doris prisoner and she doesn’t reunite with her family until after the war.

     I liked this movie and it’s another angle of a country and people helping the Jews to escape the concentration camps and murder.  The Jews in this area would have been transported to the Theresienstadt camp.  Everyone involved with saving the Jews risked their lives.  3 1/2* (I liked this movie)

90 min, Drama directed by Ken Cameron with Sam Waterston, Mia Farrow, Justin Whalin, Patrick Malahide, Benedick Blythe, Barry McGovern, Daisy Beaumont, Nicola Mycroft, Alan Devine, Mario Rosenstock, Halinla Froudist, Andrew Scott, Eva Birthistle.

Note:  Imdb 7.0 out of 10, Amazon 4.6* out of 5* with 166 reviews.

Special Note:  Filmed in Ireland.