In 1943, in central France, a shelter.
A haggard-faced mother instructed her daughter: Mom will come to pick you up soon, take care of your two sisters, I love you!
Before he finished speaking, tears came out of his eyes...
The mother knew that she had lied to her daughter.
This parting is a farewell.
The little girl's name was Fanny, she was only 10 years old, and her young face was written with maturity that was not commensurate with her age.
She knows that if she wants to live, she must stay away from the city, be separated from her parents, and not cry...
Because, their family, is Jewish.
At the time of World War II, the German Nazis were frantically persecuting the Jews, and this genocidal storm swept through all of Europe...
Many Jewish parents, in order to protect their children from threats, entrust their children to shelters in remote rural areas as early as possible.
Fanny often wrote to her mother: My sister and I miss mom and dad, when are you going to pick us up...
Mom wrote back: As soon as the war is over, I will appear in front of you immediately.
But no one knows when the war will end, whether he will be able to save his life in the war, and whether there is a possibility of family reunion...
Since then, Fanny has never received a letter from her parents...
Because of the dire situation, the shelter decided to move the children to the only safe place in Europe: neutral Switzerland.
Before leaving, the person in charge instructed: do not reveal your real name; if others ask where you are going, you say to go to summer camp; do not talk to strangers...
Who knows, the eldest child who led the team halfway escaped on the train, and Fanny was ordered to become the leader...
She must take her sister and a group of half-grown children on the most dangerous journey... However, at this time, Fanny was only 10 years old...
From France to Switzerland, from the city to the border, along the way, they waded through streams, through forests, over the steppes...
There is only one belief in my heart: go to Switzerland and survive!
Released in France in 2016, Fanny's Journey scored 8.4 on Douban, and the film is based on the real experience of Jewish girl Fanny Benjami.
As in the movie, in real life, Fanny and her two sisters managed to escape to Switzerland in 1943 and returned to France in 1946, after the end of the war, but were unable to see their parents...
Some netizens commented on this movie: a pure children's perspective of World War II movies, although cruel and dark, but the brilliance of human nature can always illuminate hope, innocent children are loved, brave children are moving.
Among the star-studded World War II movies, this is one of the special.
No guns and cannons, no bloody footage, no concentration camps, no gas chambers, only beautiful scenery, beautiful songs, and cute children...
Although the film's theme is cruel and dark, and Nazi traces are everywhere, the children's innocent and pure nature, playful and laughing nature is not absent.
On the way to escape, they show extraordinary courage, calmly respond to the search, face the interrogation of Nazi officers, without fear, but once temporarily away from danger, they turn back into ordinary children...
Can't run, a leather ball in front of you, you can be full of blood resurrection, you chase me;
Thirsty, run to the creek to drink a fierce drink, drink enough to play with the water;
Encounter an abandoned wooden house, you as a father and I as a mother, playing with the family;
Whether happy or scared, get together and sing...
No matter how deep the darkness, no matter how great the fear, can not erase the light in the child's heart.
Some people say that the reason why this movie is moving is because its good is always one point more than evil.
In a chaotic world, everyone is alone.
However, there are always some people who are willing to risk their lives to protect these children...
The head of the shelter, who was arrested by the Nazis for secretly sending away the children;
To escape the hunt, the children hid in the trunk of the van.
The uncle of the worker who inspected the carriage saw a frightened little face, could not bear to report it, and whispered: Come out again in ten minutes, I wish you good luck!
The children were locked in the classroom by the Nazis, cut off from water and food, hungry and on the verge of falling, and a cleaner aunt quietly released them to cover their escape;
In the wild, the children ate bad stomachs, and the fierce old farmer took them in.
Although he always nagged: don't get me into trouble, get me out tomorrow!
But the helpless figures of the children, the rude old man has softened his heart, and let them live day after day until they can no longer hide...
It is said that from 1938 to 1944, thousands of Jewish children were rescued by the Children's Organization and Anonymous, from Germany, France and other Nazi-infested countries to relatively safe countries such as Italy, Switzerland, Spain, and the United States.
In that crazy world, harboring or rescuing a Jew would bring about the curse of death. But the goodness in their hearts overcomes fear,
They have only one thought: children have suffered sin, and as adults, I want to help them.
In war, such heroes abound.
Before the outbreak of World War II, the Englishman Nicholas Winton organized eight trains to transport 669 Jewish children from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia to Britain.
Half a century later, Winton didn't mention it to anyone...
And the children who were rescued at that time can only stay away from the motherland and drift to a foreign country...
Nicholas Winton
It wasn't until 1988 that Winton's wife, while cleaning the attic, found a scrapbook of her husband with photos and information about the rescued children...
In 1989, the British BBC television station "tricked" Winton to the scene of a certain program, and the host took Winton's scrapbook and read out the names of the rescued children one by one...
A lady sitting to Winton's left smiled and hugged him and said, "Thank you."
The lady sitting on the right said to Winton: I am the child you saved...
The audience stood up one after another, it turned out that these white-haired old people were all Jewish children that Winton had saved from the Nazis...
50 years later, they came from all over the world with their children and grandchildren to say to winton, 78 years old: Thank you.
Winton wiped his tears and shrugged: "I didn't mean to keep it a secret... I just, didn't specifically mention it.
It can be said that in that dark age, in the era when the ugliness of human nature suppressed goodness, these well-intentioned people preserved the last dignity of mankind and let sin fail to cover the sky...
I watched a sci-fi drama called "Starship Cala di Cala di Gadget", and the question was raised in the film: Is humanity worth saving?
In the world under the clouds of World War II, it can be said that it was one of the darkest times in human history, and the humility, cruelty, selfishness and incorruptibility of human nature... Concentrated display...
But "Fanny's Journey" tells us that even in such a deep darkness, the glimmer of human nature can still penetrate the clouds that cover the sky...
Is humanity worth saving?
The answer is: As long as there are people like Nicholas Winton in this world, it is worth it.