Critics’ favorite and award-winning: “When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit” by Oscar winner Caroline Link. Watch this masterpiece today on SAT.1 – be sure to tune in!
“Particularly valuable” book adaptation
The horror sneaks up on you playfully. In the opening sequence of the Bestseller film adaptation In “When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit,” the heroine, nine-year-old Anna (Riva Krymalowski), crouches under a table. She is discovered by a few boys dressed up as Nazis with brown shirts and swastika armbands. It is a funny hide and seek gamebut like a symbolic omen for the film and the story of Anna and her family. Because a carefree life of luxury in Berlin in 1933 turns into an escape from the National Socialists.
In 2019, Caroline Link filmed the autobiographical Bestseller by Judith Kerr (1923-2019), who fled from Berlin and Switzerland to England with her wealthy Jewish family in 1933 to escape the Nazis. The film won both the Bavarian and the German Film Awards and was awarded the title of Best Film by the German Film Rating Board “particularly valuable”.
This is what “When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit” is about
At the beginning of 1933, Anna, her older brother Max (Marinus Hohmann) and her parents Dorothea (Carla Juri) and Arthur (Oliver Masucci) introduce live carefree in a chic apartment in Berlin. A evening phone call changes everything. Arthur, a well-known and radical theatre and political critic, is to appear on the “black list” of the Nazis and will be immediately withdrawn from circulation if they win the election.
The father goes off, and when the National Socialists actually win the election, the rest of the family flees too. Head over heels, under cover of darkness. Everything is left behind, including Anna’s pink plush rabbit. At the Escape through Switzerland and Paris to England, the family not only experiences poverty that is unusual for them, but also anti-Semitism.
In contrast to other films made during the so-called Third Reich play, “When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit” does not focus on the superficial horror of the Nazi era. The film by Oscar winner Caroline Link (“Nowhere in Africa”) instead tells very carefully and quietly about the fate and deprivations of a Jewish family during the Second World War.
Critics praise the director and the child actress
The critics praised the film effusively. “When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit” was a film that was particularly based on the film experiences of a younger audience tailored film that not only addresses the Nazi era and the Holocaust, but above all also flight, expulsion and homelessness“These are topics that have become central to our society more than ever before. And therefore topics that should not be dealt with in films either too early or too often.”
In addition, Riva Krymalowski was chosen as Anna actress as “Lucky find” and outstanding young actress appreciated.
In short: a Highlight for a Saturday evening. Watch in SAT.1 or live on Joyn!
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