AWARDS
BAVARIAN FILM AWARDS Best
Cinematography, Best Production (1996)
SILVER AWARD German
Film Awards (1995)
CRYSTAL GLOBE AWARD NOMINATION Karlovy
Vary International Film Festival (1995)
THEATRICAL RUNS
Laemmle Theater; Los Angeles, CA (1997)
Coolidge Corner Cinema; Boston, MA (1997)
Film Forum; New York, NY (1997)
NORTH AMERICAN FESTIVAL SCREENINGS
Vanderbilt University, International Lens Series (2016)
Zagreb Jewish Film Festival (2011)
Washington
Jewish Film Festival (2009)
NCJF's
Jewishfilm.2006 at Harvard Film Archive (2006)
Berlin
and Beyond Film Festival (2006)
Museum
of Jewish Heritage, New York (2002)
Carnegie
Museum of Art, Pittsburgh (2000)
Kansas
City Jewish Film Festival (2000)
Ashkenaz
Festival Toronto (1999)
Berkshire
Jewish Film Festival (1999)
Contra
Costa Jewish Film Festival (1999)
Maine
Jewish Film Festival (1999)
Columbia
SC Jewish Film Festival (1998)
Hartford
Jewish Film Festival (1998)
Tucson
Jewish Film Festival (1998)
San
Diego Jewish Film Festival (1998)
Toronto
Film Society (1998)
Palm
Beach Jewish Film Festival (1997)
Virginia
Festival of Film (1997)
Boston
Jewish Film Festival (1997)
Cleveland
Film Society (1997)
San
Francisco Jewish Film Festival (1997)
St.
Louis Jewish Film Festival (1997)
Palm
Springs International Film Festival (1997)
Washington
Jewish Film Festival (1996)
From
Michael Verhoeven comes this stunning cinematic version of Hungarian author
George Tabori's play and novel. Shifting between Nazi-occupied Budapest
and present-day Berlin, the film artfully depicts the true story of what
happened to Tabori's mother Elsa on a summer's day in 1944.
Michael Verhoeven
(left) and George Tabori on the set of MY MOTHER'S COURAGE
Pauline
Collins' stellar performance as Elsa (right), plucked
from her everyday life and thrown into the surreal nightmare of mass deportation,
affords an extraordinary account of one individual's escape from death
juxtaposed with that of the millions who did not survive. Verhoeven's
skillful adaptation of Tabori's satirical, dark tale about fate and human
cruelty forges new ground in cinematic portrayals of the Holocaust.
CRITICAL ACCLAIM
"My
Mother's Courage shows that blue skies and sunshine can
be as devastating as night and fog."
-J. Hoberman, Village Voice
"A
film about the Holocaust that, after the few memorable films on the subject
and the flood of lesser ones, needs to be seen."
- Stanley Kaufmann, New Republic
ALSO DIRECTED BY
MICHAEL VERHOEVEN
The
White Rose
The
Nasty Girl
The
Legend of Mrs. Goldman and the Almighty God
Human
Failure
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