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Reviews Counted: 14

Fresh: 12

Rotten:2

Average Rating: 7/10

Rated: Not Rated

Genre: Education/General Interest

Theatrical Release:Jun 13, 2003 Limited

Synopsis: "The Nazi Officer's Wife" looks at the extraordinary and unforgettable life of Holocaust survivor Edith Hahn Beer. Born in Vienna in 1914, Edith Hahn was an outspoken young woman studying law in... "The Nazi Officer's Wife" looks at the extraordinary and unforgettable life of Holocaust survivor Edith Hahn Beer. Born in Vienna in 1914, Edith Hahn was an outspoken young woman studying law in Vienna when the Gestapo forced Edith and her mother into the Jewish ghetto. Soon Edith was deported to a labor camp, and though she convinced Nazi officials to spare her mother, when she returned home she discovered that her mother had been deported. Knowing she would become a hunted woman, Edith tore the yellow star from her clothing and went underground, scavenging for food and searching each night for a safe place to sleep. Her boyfriend, Pepi, proved too terrified to help her, but a Christian friend was not. With the Christian woman's identity papers in hand, Edith fled to Munich.

Edith was now what became known as a "U-boat" -- a fugitive hiding in plain sight in Nazi Germany. She got a job at the Red Cross and lived in a boarding house outside Munich. There she met Werner Vetter, a Nazi party member who fell in love with her. And despite her protests and even her eventual confession that she was Jewish, he married her and kept her identity secret. The two of them - the Nazi and his Jewish wife - lived out the war together, even bearing a child. Angela Vetter, their daughter is the only Jewish girl known to be born in a Nazi hospital.

Edith Hahn and her daughter survived the war, while potential exposure lurked at every corner. But Edith Hahn is not simply a hero ­ she is a complicated woman who kept her story of survival secret for nearly half a century, deceiving even her children. The film explores issues of faith, family and identity in this complex portrait of a woman who had to bury her true self in order to survive. -- © Seventh Art Releasing [More]

Starring: Susan Sarandon, Julia Ormond

Starring: Susan Sarandon, Julia Ormond


Studio: Seventh Art Releasing

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Emanuel Levy
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07/16/05
Paul Sherman
Boston Herald

You cannot help but be riveted by it.

Full Review Source: St. Paul Pioneer Press | comment Comment
02/26/04
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul)
St. Paul Pioneer Press

A compelling survival drama despite the mundane telling.

Full Review Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune | comment Comment
02/26/04
Colin Covert
Minneapolis Star Tribune
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One of the most compelling films the Holocaust has yet produced.

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06/27/03
Janice Page
Boston Globe
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Though The Nazi Officer's Wife is more a story of cunning survival than it is of torture, pain and death, it still manages to capture the horror of that insane and shameful period of human history.

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06/20/03
Jeffrey M. Anderson
San Francisco Examiner

It is a bewitching and harrowing tale of the continual submersion of self to stay alive, told by a woman who survived the impostures in which she cloaked herself.

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06/13/03
Elvis Mitchell
New York Times
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The amazing story of Edith Hahn Beer, an Austrian Jew who survived the Holocaust by passing herself off as Aryan.

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06/13/03
V.A. Musetto
New York Post
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At a brisk 97 minutes, the film skips over many episodes that make Hahn's book a pulse-pounding page-turner, but offers her rare perspective on both sides of civilian life during those nightmare years.

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06/12/03
Ken Fox
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06/12/03
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Sarandon narrates and Ormond reads excerpts from Hahn's memoir, supplemented by archival footage and interviews with the survivor herself.

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06/12/03
David Sterritt
Christian Science Monitor

A powerful account of living in isolation and constant terror.

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06/10/03
J. Hoberman
Village Voice
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The film does little to penetrate the psyche of a woman who survived the way Edith did.

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06/09/03
Maria Garcia
Film Journal International

If I had to choose a Holocaust film that was most compelling, this one would rate near the top of my list.

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06/06/03
Dennis Schwartz
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Unmistakably among the better screen treatments of the Holocaust.

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06/01/03
Donald J. Levit
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