The Corinth Film Collection of historical drama films uses the regimes of Hitler and Stalin to deliver five monumental dramas. They’re all striking testaments to faith and resistance during times of unparalleled malice.
In the 2011 film Calm At Sea, you witness the tale of real-life resistance fighter Guy Môquet. Arrested in Paris in 1940 at the age of sixteen by French anti-Communist forces, Guy spent almost a year in prison. Afterward, two German officers were murdered in broad daylight by French resistance fighters. Môquet was one of many prisoners killed in retaliation.
2010’s Habermann tells the story of affluent German mill owner August Habermann. Habermann wanted nothing to do with the Nazi regime until his town of Eglau is overrun by them. The Nazis corrupt Habermann’s workers and scheme against the owner. 2010’s Remembrance shifts the narrative to a love story. Tomasz smuggles his beloved Jewish fiancée Hannah out of a concentration camp, and their love story becomes muddled when Tomasz joins the resistance to combat the Nazi threat.
The final two films of the collection shift focus to the Soviets. 2016’s The Chronicles of Melanie explores the true story of Melanija Vanga and the Soviet occupation of Latvia. The titular Melanie spends almost two decades in a Siberian prison camp before learning of her beloved husband’s fate.
2009’s Within the Whirlwind is based on the tale of Evgenia Ginzburg, a Russian literature professor imprisoned in a gulag on false pretenses. She finds love in prison and also the heart to persevere. All five films have something to offer and should be included in academic library collections for history students and professors.
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