Rescuers: Stories of Courage - Two Women

Rescuers: Stories of Courage - Two Women

106 mins | Drama, War, History, TV Movie | Oct. 5, 1997

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.

Rescuers: Stories of Courage - Two Women

106 mins | Drama, War, History, TV Movie | Oct. 5, 1997

Rescuers: Stories of Courage - Two Women
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.
IMDb rating 6.2
Producers
Original title Rescuers: Stories of Courage - Two Women
Directors Peter Bogdanovich
Writers Malka Drucker, Gay Block, Susan Nanus, Ernest Kinoy

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")

Michael Cameron

as Young Mickey (segment "Mamusha")

Fraser McGregor

as Older Mickey (segment "Mamusha")

Mark Humphrey

as Tomas Kolchak (segment "Mamusha")

Pixie Bigelow

as Mrs. 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")

Wally Bolland

as S.S. Officer (segment "Mamusha")

Andrew Dolha

as S.S. Guard (segment "Mamusha")

John Weisgerber

as German Soldier (segment "Mamusha")

David Jansen

as First S.S. Soldier (segment "Mamusha")

Mark Lutz

as Soldier #1 (segment "Mamusha")