The Nazi Officer's Wife

The Nazi Officer's Wife (2003)

09 May 2003 • Documentary, History, War • 1h 30m
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Edith Han was an outspoken young woman studying law in Vienna when the Gestapo forced Edith and her mother into a Jewish ghetto. Edith was taken away to a labor camp, and when she returned home months later, she found her mother had been deported. Knowing she would become a hunted woman, Edith went underground, scavenging for food and searching each night for a safe place to sleep. Her boyfriend, Pepi, proved too terrified to help her, but a Christian friend was not. Using the woman's identity papers, Edith fled to Munich. There she met Werner Vetter, a Nazi Party member who fell in love with her. Despite her protests and even her eventual confession that she was Jewish, he married her and kept her identity a secret.

Liz Garbus
Director
Jack Youngelson
Writer
Edith Hahn Beer, Julia Ormond, Susan Sarandon
Starring

Language: English
Awards: Nominated for 1 Primetime Emmy. 1 nomination total
Country: United States
Metacritic Score: 74
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Box Office Total:

7.3

IMDb (334 votes)
85%
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