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A Danish family tries to help their Jewish neighbours escape from the Nazis.
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| User ReviewDana L"You will stink, but you will be in Sweden" |
| User ReviewAmita AI watched this outstanding Disney made-for-tv movie many, many times, and I LOVE IT!! I have watched it so many times I have lost count!! I am also going to buy the soundtrack for it too, because the music is so moving and poignant. Miracle at Midnight is the touching made-for-TV movie based on true events during World War II. It is set in Denmark during September 1943,(the information in the synopsis is either a typo or other error) and stars Sam Waterston and Mia Farrow as Dr. Karl (Waterston) and Doris(Farrow) Koster, a Christian couple living in Copenhagen with their two children, 18 year old Hendrik (Justin Whalin) and preteen Elsa (Nicola Mycroft) during the Nazi occupation of Denmark. When Dr. Koster learns that after three years of occupation, the Nazis are going to start deporting the Jewish people in Denmark, he and his family realize that they can no longer sit by and watch their friends, neighbors and countrymen, be taken, and dragged away to Nazi concentration camps and death camps. They decide to do whatever they can to help those in danger. While Dr. Koster uses his position of Chief Surgeon to protect a young Resistance fighter who was shot by the Nazis, his 18 year old son Hendrik risks his life working for the same Resistance group, commandeering and seizing shipments of weapons that were sent to the Nazis. But it all comes to a head on Wednesday, September 29, 1943, when Dr. Koster gets word that the Nazis have planned a mass arrest and deportation of all Jewish people, at Midnight on that Friday, which is the start of the Jewish holiday Rosh Hashanah. Dr. Koster, his family, and his entire hospital staff, band together with the Resistance, and the Danish people, realizing that they are going to have to work really fast if they want to save the thousands and thousands of innocent Jewish people in Denmark from being dragged off to Theresienstadt Concentration Camp by the Nazis. They set up plans to find hiding places for the Jewish people, and get them safely through the initial raids, while they try to convince the Swedish government, to accept them, and find ways to transport them up the Danish coast to Sweden. As a majority of the Danes hate the Nazis, they are all willing to help, opening their homes, providing money and transportation. While Hendrik works with the Resistance, securing trucks and other means to take Jewish people up the coast of Denmark to Sweden, his father, Dr. Karl Koster uses his position as Chief Surgeon at Christiana Hospital to hide Jews in the hospital, and his mother, Doris, and sister, Elsa, help out by letting their Jewish friends, Rabbi Ben Abrams, his wife, his daughter Hannah, and her fiance Michael hide in their attic. Eventually the Nazis catch up to them, and the Kosters themselves are forced to flee for their lives. Yet, they are, in a matter of a couple of days, able to help save over 7,000 Danish Jews, in a miraculous rescue! Miracle at Midnight is a TERRIFIC movie! It is just WONDERFUL having it on DVD! Now I can enjoy it for years to come!! |
| User ReviewNatalie SThe main reason I like this movie is because the whole story and message is so incredible. I've read lots of books about heroes in the underground rescuing the targets of the holocaust, and this movie really sums up all those types of stories. While it could have been casted better, the whole idea of the movie outshines any of its faults. Watch it! |
| User ReviewSierra HI think this a great movie for a couple of reasons. #1- It involves WW II and the Holocaust and #2 It shows people who are willing to stand up for what is right. I really like the voice over at the end where the lead actor is saying something along the lines that people of all religions should do what's right and I was like amen. This is a great movie for parents to show their kids to get them acquainted with the genre. They will be able to feel the emotion and fear jews and resistance fighter had without be scared out of their minds. You don't want to show your 10 year old Schindler's List and say what did you think. Way to go Disney and more importantly thumbs up to the Danish people for standing up to the nazis. |
| User ReviewDaniel HDisney's take on the Holocaust is like a vitamin enriched piece of white bread. It has lost much of its real flavor after so much processing. It's not so much bad as it is bland. |
| User ReviewAdam R(First and only viewing - In my mid-twenties) |
| User ReviewCynthia SWalt Disney takes on the Holocaust. I think that now I have seen it all. Not a bad made-for-tv movie. Just definitely not memorable, and definitely not enough reality... |