![]() Also, the interviewing of the survivors, combined with enactments of what they were reporting, also worked extremely well. Having the actual photographic footage of Berlin during the war gave the film an aura of authenticity that enhanced it. I thought the combination worked extremely well. To the already copious number of films on the subject, comes The Invisibles, a docudrama, so labeled with names of the two genres that combine successfully to make up this film. There will never be too much that can be said or portrayed about the largest act of genocide, torture and madness. One reviewer here asks how much more drama can be "squeezed" from this "event". Reviewed by Moviegoer19 9 / 10 A Great Addition The two levels blend together into an intensive, emotionally moving feature film. The dramatic re-enactments are supplemented with impressive interviews with the actual people whose lives inspired this film. And while Eugen Friede joins a resistance group that distributes anti government leaflets, Ruth Arndt and a friend dream about life in America during the daytime at night, she pretends to be a war widow and serves black-market gourmet foods in the apartment of an NS officer. Cioma Schönhaus has also gone underground and leads an adventurous life that consists of buying a sailboat, dining in Berlin's best restaurants, and becoming a forger of passports, through which he saves the lives of dozens of other Jews. Thanks to her dyed, blonde hair, she is practically invisible to her pursuers, and strolls along the Ku'damm to pass the time away. Hanni Lévy, who has just turned 17, has lost both of her parents. The Invisibles tells the stories of four of these contemporary witnesses. Almost 1700 will survive the horrors of the war in Berlin. ![]() Berlin, February 1943: The NS regime declares the Reich's capital "free of Jews." At this point in time, 7000 Jews have succeeded in going underground.
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