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Summary A group of children rescued from Nazi concentration camps were brought to the Calgarth Estate by Lake Windermere in August 1945 to recuperate with the help of child psychologist Oscar Friedmann (Thomas Kretschmann), art therapist Marie Paneth (Romola Garai), philanthropist Leonard Montefiore (Tim McInnerny) and sports coach Jock Lawrence...

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The Windermere Children

Name: The Windermere Children
Genre: Drama, War
Released: 2020-04-05
Rating: 88
Cast: Thomas Kretschmann, Romola Garai, Iain Glen, Tim McInnerny, Marcel Sabat

Season 1 Premiere: Apr 5, 2020

Metascore Universal Acclaim Based on 5 Critic Reviews

User Score Generally Favorable Based on 5 User Ratings

6.8

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The Times

Mar 31, 2020

The decision to introduce the real Jewish concentration camp survivors, now in their nineties, on whom those children's characters had been based was inspired, a sucker punch to dispel any faint notion that this was an embellishment. We had glimpsed the traumatised, brutalised teenagers these dignified elderly men had been. Even without it this drama had been extraordinary. ... Its strength was in its understatement, the orphans' experiences eked out delicately, the temptation to ramp things up for dramatic effect resisted.

By Carol Midgley FULL REVIEW

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The Telegraph

Mar 31, 2020

It would have been easy for The Windermere Children to tip over into sentimentality. ... And it would have been easier still to portray the carers (Tim McInnerny as Montefiore, Iain Glen as a sports coach, Romola Garai as an art therapist) as saviours. But they remained secondary to the excellent young cast, many of whom had never acted before. ... Writer Simon Block and director Michael Samuels gave us a sad and beautiful film.

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Wall Street Journal

Apr 2, 2020

The months at Windermere in the end prove their worth as evident in this film, impressively devoid of sentimentality, grim in its facts, and moving in its portrait of the determined effort to rescue these young lives

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The Independent

Mar 31, 2020

It is impossible to get through the hour and a half or so of The Windermere Children (BBC2) without crying. It is rare indeed to find a television dramatisation, even one concerned, as here, with the Holocaust, that exercises such a raw emotional power.

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The Guardian

Mar 31, 2020

There are shots of laughing children running through the idyllic landscapes, sentimental music blaring, and it teeters on being an implausibly saccharine resolution until the arrival of the real Windermere boys as they are now.

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Production Company:

Wall to Wall Television
British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
Warner Bros. Television Productions UK
Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF)
Northern Ireland Screen
Warner Bros. International Television Production

Initial Release Date: Apr 5, 2020

Number of seasons: 0 Seasons

Rating: Not Rated

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Awards

Prix Europa

• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

Shanghai International TV Festival

• 1 Nomination

BAFTA Awards

• 1 Nomination

The Windermere Children

Top Cast

Thomas Kretschmann

Oscar Friedmann

Romola Garai

Marie Paneth

Iain Glen

Jock Lawrence

Tim McInnerny

Leonard Montefiore

Marcel Sabat

Berish Lerner

Philipp Christopher

Georg Lauer

Anna Schumacher

Edith Lauer

Konstantin Frank

Rabbi Weiss

Kacper Swietek

Chaim 'Harry' Olmer

Marek Wroblewski

Schmuel 'Sam' Laskier

Kuba Sprenger

Icek 'Ike' Alterman

Pascal Fischer

Benyak 'Ben' Helfgott

Anna Maciejewska

Sala Feiermann

Tomasz Studzinski

Arek Hershlikovicz

Jakub Jankiewicz

Salek Falinower

Lukasz Zieba

Juliusz

Alicia Pokladecka

Bela

India Angerman

Toddler 1

B.J. Hogg

Dr. Willenshaw

Cal O'Driscoll

Malcolm

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