Liz Garbus
97 minutes
Edith Hahn was an outspoken young woman studying law in Vienna when the Gestapo forced her into the Jewish ghetto. Knowing she would become a hunted woman, Edith tore the yellow star from her clothing and went underground. A Christian friend gave Edith her identity papers, and Edith fled to Munich. She got a job at the Red Cross, and lived in a boarding house outside Munich. There she met Werner Vetter, a Nazi party member who fell in love with her. And despite her protests and even her eventual confession that she was Jewish, he married her and kept her identity secret. The two of them - the Nazi and his Jewish wife - lived out the war together, even bearing a child. The film explores faith, family, identity and love in this complex portrait of a woman who had to bury her true self in order to survive.
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