Independent
It is rare indeed to find a television dramatisation, even one concerned, as here, with the Holocaust, that exercises such a raw emotional power.
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The Windermere Children
UK post-war drama based on the true story of the pioneering project to rehabilitate child survivors of the Holocaust on the shores of Lake Windermere.
2020Rating: M88 minsUK, Germany
DramaTrue Story & BiographyWarHistorical
- Director:
- Michael Samuels
- Writer:
- Simon Block
- Cast:
- Thomas KretschmannRomola GaraiIain GlenTim McInnerny
The Windermere Children / Reviews
Daily Mail
The horror was emphasised less than the humanity: we got to know seven teenagers and watched the well-meaning but futile attempts of psychologists and teachers to help them.
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Wall Street Journal
Impressively devoid of sentimentality, grim in its facts, and moving in its portrait of the determined effort to rescue these young lives.
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