Rescuers: Stories of Courage - Two Women
Rescuers: Stories of Courage - Two Women
Release: 1997-10-05
·Runtime: 106m
·★ 7.0
Drama
History
War
TV Movie
First in a series of anthology films dealing with Christians who put their lives on the line to help rescue Jews from the Holocaust. In the first of two short films, "Mamusha," as the Nazis invade her country, a Polish Catholic housekeeper takes under her wing the youngster in the Jewish family for whom she is employed, and shepherds him through WWII in hopes of ultimately getting him repatriated to Palestine. In "Woman on a Bicycle," an unmarried French woman is pressed into service by the church to distribute underground communication pamphlets for the Resistance and ultimately ends up helping the church shelter 19 Jews.
Production Countries
United States of America
Production Companies
Barwood Films
Paramount Television
Showtime
Cast
Elizabeth Perkins
as Gertruda Babilinska (segment "Mamusha")
Sela Ward
as Marie-Rose Gineste (segment "Woman on a Bicycle")
Anne Jackson
as Maman (segment "Woman on a Bicycle")
Fritz Weaver
as Father Theas (segment "Woman on a Bicycle")
Al Waxman
as Dr. Jakob Weinstock (segment "Mamusha")
Nicky Guadagni
as Lydia Stolowitsky (segment "Mamusha")
George Morfogen
as Adult Michael - Narrator (segment "Mamusha")
Mark Humphrey
as Tomas Kolchak (segment "Mamusha")
Gerard Parkes
as Father Daniel (segment "Mamusha")
Stuart Stone
as Aaron Weinstock (segment "Mamusha")
Nancy Beatty
as Ella Weinstock (segment "Mamusha")
Gerry Quigley
as Franek (segment "Mamusha")
Douglas O'Keeffe
as First S.S. Guard (segment "Mamusha")
Mark Lutz
as Soldier #1 (segment "Mamusha")
Michael Landes
as Rene Klein (segment "Woman on a Bicycle")
Brian Paul
as Inspector Fernera (segment "Woman on a Bicycle")
Louise Stratten
as Annette (segment "Woman on a Bicycle")
Ron Tough
as One-Armed Man (segment "Woman on a Bicycle")
Antonia Bogdanovich
as Nicole Bloch (segment "Woman on a Bicycle")
