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The Invisibles(Die Unsichtbaren)

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Germany · 2017
1h 50m
Director Claus Räfle
Starring Max Mauff, Alice Dwyer, Ruby O. Fee, Aaron Altaras
Genre Drama, History

Cioma Schönhaus, Hanni Lévy, Ruth Arndt-Gumpel and Eugen Friede were four jewish teenagers struggling to survive in World War II Berlin. A mix of personal interviews, reenactments, archival footage, and narration, the film goes into detail about the luck, perseverance, and outside help it takes to survive a genocide.

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75

TheWrap by Elizabeth Weitzman

The Invisibles is a powerful testament to the remarkable courage of those forced into heroism, and to the exceptional strength of those who chose it freely.

70

Los Angeles Times by Gary Goldstein

Although this movie’s unusual mix of first-person interviews, archival footage, voiceover narration and dramatic reenactments is a bit awkward, it still makes for a gripping, involving and affecting experience.

70

Wall Street Journal by Joe Morgenstern

Of the 7,000 Jews who resisted, about 1,700 survived. The stories of these four don’t constitute high drama; there’s none of the dramatic clarity of “Schindler’s List.” But they testify to that part of the human spirit concerned with ironic humor, improbable daring and unlikely generosity.

50

Original-Cin by Liam Lacey

Neither version of the film — the talking-heads documentary or the period drama — has the depth to achieve much impact.

50

Slant Magazine by Pat Brown

The film doesn’t bring to light otherwise unexplored aspects of the experience or memory of persecution and genocide.

63

Observer by Rex Reed

The result is half docudrama, half suspense thriller with the constant threat of seeming artificial and fictional. Amazingly, the actors are so engaging and believable, and the facts are so riveting, that the movie, despite its flaws, held me spellbound.

63

RogerEbert.com by Sheila O'Malley

A film like The Invisibles is part of bearing "precise witness." We clearly need reminders, and constant ones, of the end result of "otherizing" an entire group of people.

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