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Rescuers: Stories of Courage - Two Women

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Calorie Rating: 149
Released: 1997-10-05
Running Time: 106 Minutes
Studios: Barwood Films, Paramount Television Studios, Showtime,


First in a series of anthology films dealing with Christians who put their lives on the line to help rescue Jews from the Holocaust. 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. In "Woman on a Bicycle," an unmarried French woman is pressed into service by the church to distribute underground communication pamphlets for the Resistance and ultimately ends up helping the church shelter 19 Jews.

Director / Directors



Cast

Elizabeth Perkins
Character: Gertruda Babilinska (segment "Mamusha")
Sela Ward
Character: Marie-Rose Gineste (segment "Woman on a Bicycle")
Anne Jackson
Character: Maman (segment "Woman on a Bicycle")

Fritz Weaver
Character: Father Theas (segment "Woman on a Bicycle")
Al Waxman
Character: Dr. Jakob Weinstock (segment "Mamusha")
Nicky Guadagni
Character: Lydia Stolowitsky (segment "Mamusha")

George Morfogen
Character: Adult Michael - Narrator (segment "Mamusha")
Michael Cameron
Character: Young Mickey (segment "Mamusha")
Fraser McGregor
Character: Older Mickey (segment "Mamusha")

Mark Humphrey
Character: Tomas Kolchak (segment "Mamusha")
Pixie Bigelow
Character: Mrs. Kolchak (segment "Mamusha")
Gerard Parkes
Character: Father Daniel (segment "Mamusha")

Stuart Stone
Character: Aaron Weinstock (segment "Mamusha")
Nancy Beatty
Character: Ella Weinstock (segment "Mamusha")
Gerry Quigley
Character: Franek (segment "Mamusha")

Douglas O'Keeffe
Character: First S.S. Guard (segment "Mamusha")
Wally Bolland
Character: S.S. Officer (segment "Mamusha")
Andrew Dolha
Character: S.S. Guard (segment "Mamusha")

John Weisgerber
Character: German Soldier (segment "Mamusha")
David Jansen
Character: First S.S. Soldier (segment "Mamusha")
Mark Lutz
Character: Soldier #1 (segment "Mamusha")

Phil Morrison
Character: Soldier #2 (segment "Mamusha")
Paul Firestone
Character: Krakowski (segment "Mamusha")
Sean Dick
Character: Mickey's Friend #1 (segment "Mamusha")

Alex Seeds
Character: Mickey's Friend #2 (segment "Mamusha")
Nell Schaap
Character: Crying Woman in Ghetto (segment "Mamusha")
Michael Landes
Character: Rene Klein (segment "Woman on a Bicycle")

Theresa Tova
Character: The Abbess (segment "Woman on a Bicycle")
Brian Paul
Character: Inspector Fernera (segment "Woman on a Bicycle")
Barna Moricz
Character: Jules Debret (segment "Woman on a Bicycle")

Louise Stratten
Character: Annette (segment "Woman on a Bicycle")
Ed Sahely
Character: Maurice Hirschorn (segment "Woman on a Bicycle")
Jack Jessop
Character: Grandfather (segment "Woman on a Bicycle")

Ron Tough
Character: One-Armed Man (segment "Woman on a Bicycle")
Marvin Karon
Character: Armand Alkimov (segment "Woman on a Bicycle")
Antonia Bogdanovich
Character: Nicole Bloch (segment "Woman on a Bicycle")

Judy White
Character: Lotte Hirschorn (segment "Woman on a Bicycle")
Brittany Whittingstall
Character: Danielle Hirschorn (segment "Woman on a Bicycle")
Cori Atlin
Character: Rebecca (segment "Woman on a Bicycle")

Leslie Cottle
Character: Rebecca's Mother (segment "Woman on a Bicycle")
Hugo Dann
Character: Gestapo Man (segment "Woman on a Bicycle")


Production and Crew

Ernest Kinoy
Screenplay
Susan Nanus
Screenplay

Barbra Streisand
Executive Producer

Cis Corman
Executive Producer
Albert Botha
Line Producer
Mirosław Baszak
Director of Photography

Franco De Cotiis
Production Design

Benno Tutter
Art Direction
Zeljka Alosinac
Set Decoration
Eydi Caines-Floyd
Costume Design