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- TITLE: MY KNEES WERE JUMPING
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- CAST: Narrated by Joanne Woodward
- DIRECTOR: Hacker, Melissa
- LENGTH: 76 min.
- COLOR_B&W_TINTED: Color/B&W
- RELEASE_DATE: 1996
- GENRE_MAIN: Documentary
- GENRE_SECOND: Holocaust
- GENRE_THIRD: Family
- COUNTRY_OF_ORIGIN: U.S.
- LANGUAGE: English
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- RIGHTS_TV: TV
- AVAILABILITY_DATE: Summer/Fall 1998
- TERRITORY_DOMESTIC: U.S.
- TERRITORY_CANADA: Canada
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- SYNOPSIS: In the months just prior to World War II nearly 10,000 children were sent, without their parents, to England from Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia and Poland. There children were rescued by the Kindertransport movement. Most of the children never saw their parents again. Those courageous parents who had the strength to send their children off to an unknown fate soon boarded transports taking them to concentration camps. The filmmaker's mother, the Academy Award nominated costume designer Ruth Morley, fled Vienna on a Kindertransport in January 1939. Through interviews, family gatherings, and rare archival film and photographs, MY KNEES WERE JUMPING leads the viewer on a deeply moving journey, and sheds light on an extraordinary piece of history which has been unknown for far too long.
"Intimate...heartfelt...the speakers remember how their parents made the decision, as wrenching as Sophie's choice, to part with their children, possibly forever, on the eve of war." Janet Maslin, New York Times
"Emotionally affecting." Daily News
"A simple and eloquent documentary...while many may feel that they know all they need to about the Holocaust from movies like "Schindler's List" and "Shoah", this quiet film makes the horror vivid all over again." New York Post
"A beautiful and inspiring film." St. Louis Riverfront Times
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