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Two women try to save Jews from the Germans in World War Two. The story is told in two segments. In "Mamusha" a Polish housekeeper Gertruda (Elizabeth Perkins) for a Jewish family who helps the mother and her 3-year-old boy flee Warsaw to safety. She then takes the boy to Palestine.
Oct 5, 1997 · 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.
1h 48m. Telefilm depicting two stories from the book "Rescuers: Portraits of Moral Courage in the Holocaust," involving the courageous efforts of non-Jews who risked their lives to rescue victims of the Holocaust.
- Peter Bogdanovich
- Fritz Weaver
Two stories of heroism and profound courage during the Holocaust. First in a series of anthology films dealing with Christians who put their lives on the line to help rescue Jews from the Holocaust.
- Peter Bogdanovich
- Barwood Films, Paramount Television, Showtime
Rescuers: Stories of Courage -- Two Women. A Polish nanny (Elizabeth Perkins) raises an orphaned Jewish boy in "Mamusha"; a Frenchwoman (Sela Ward) aids the Resistance in "Woman on a Bicycle."
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- Frederic And Mary Ann Brussat
- PG-13
- Peter Bogdanovich
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