5/30/2023 0 Comments When hitler stole pink rabbitIt’s difficult to sympathize with a family whose most pressing problems are a snippy French landlady (Anne Bennent) and the ability to afford private schooling for only one child. News that the Nazis have looted their home and burned their books, and that Arthur now has a price on his head, seems to arrive from another planet as the film focuses on Anna’s developing artistic talent. Yet, considering the horrors unfolding in Germany, the family’s problems feel staggeringly trivial. While the children grapple with a new language and unfamiliar customs, Arthur struggles to find work in a country he learns is experiencing an influx of Jewish intellectuals and is fearful of compromising its neutrality.Ī move to a meager Paris apartment only accelerates their diminishing circumstances. Forced to flee to protect her father, Arthur (Oliver Masucci), a noted theater critic and prominent denouncer of Hitler, the family - including Anna’s older brother, Max (Marinus Hohmann), and their mother, Dorothea (Carla Juri) - relocates to the Swiss countryside. We meet 9-year-old Anna in Berlin in 1933, just before the Nazis come to power. The result is a movie that’s almost as cuddly as the toy in its title. Painting a curiously cozy portrait of refugee life, Caroline Link’s “When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit” views displacement and the approaching Holocaust primarily through the experiences of a child, Anna Kemper (a captivating Riva Krymalowski).
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