Rescuers: Stories of Courage "Two Women" Movie Review 1997

Fact-based drama about Gentiles who sheltered Jews from Nazi persecution during WWII. In "Mamusha" Perkins plays Gertruda, a Catholic nanny in Poland, who poses as the mother of her orphaned Jewish charge. "The Woman on the Bicycle" is Frenchwoman Marie-Rose (Ward), who works for the Resistance and hides a Jewish family in the attic of her home.

Distribution

Paramount Home Video, 5555 Melrose Ave., 5555 Melrose Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90038, Phone: (323)956-5000, URL: http://www.paramount.com, Remarks: Does not handle retail queries from consumers; contact your local video distributor.

Available on VHS
Running time 107 minutes.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Women, World War II, Nazis & Other Paramilitary Slugs, True Stories, Nannies & Governesses, Judaism

Screenplay

Ernest Kinoy, Terry Norris

Cast

Elizabeth Perkins, Sela Ward, Fritz Weaver, Anne Jackson, Al Waxman, Gerard Parkes, Michael Landes

Cinematography

Miroslaw Baszak

Director

Peter Bogdanovich

Music

Hummie Mann

Producer

Barbra Streisand, Cis Corman, Showtime Networks, Barwood Films