Directed by Jochen Alexander Freydank
编剧: Johann A. Bunners / Jochen Alexander Freydank
Starring: Tamay Bulut Özvatan / Claudia Hübschmann / Gregor Weber / Jürgen Trott / Klaus-Jürgen Steinmann / David C. Bunners / Cedric Iich
Genre: Drama / Short Film / War
Country of Production: Germany
Language: German
Release Date: 2007-08-29 (Montreal World Film Festival)
Runtime: 14 minutes
A touching story set during World War II, it was a 14-minute short film that won the 81st Academy Award for Best Live-Action Short Film in 2009.
In Germany in 1942, under Nazi rule, Jews were sent to horrific concentration camps. A little German boy asked his mother where his Jewish neighbor next door was going to go. "They're about to go to Toy Island," the mother told her son a white lie. The little boy believed it and clamored to go with the Jewish boy in the neighborhood, but his mother strongly objected. On the day of the Departure of the Jews, the little German boy also disappeared, and the mother rushed to the train station to look for it. In the jammed train cars, the mother found a Jewish neighbor who called her son's name to the Jewish child, freed him from the Nazis, and led him home. Her son, on the other hand, was refused to get into the car by the Nazis because he was not Jewish, and has returned home safely...
The World War II short film, which has a touching ending, does not face the Nazi concentration camps, but gives people a sense of horror. When thinking about the history of World War II, German directors often do not stop at simply making "apologies", "regrets", "reviews", or blaming a few Nazis and Hitler, but often think about the problem from the perspective of the humanity of ordinary people, which is far beyond the reach of many Japanese directors.