In 1933 in Berlin. Anna is only nine years old when her life changes from the ground up. To escape the Nazis, her father Arthur Kemper, a well-known Jewish journalist, has to flee to Zurich. His family, Anna, her twelve-year-old brother Max and her mother Dorothea, follow him shortly thereafter. Anna has to leave everything behind, including her beloved pink rabbit, and to face a new life full of challenges and privations abroad.
Acting
Riva Krymalowski's luminous, unshowy child performance
Direction
Link's refusal to sensationalize—horror seen through domesticity
Production
Period detail that feels lived-in, not museum-piece
Director
Caroline Link
Riva Krymalowski
Anna Kemper
Oliver Masucci
Arthur Kemper
Carla Juri
Dorothea Kemper
Marinus Hohmann
Max Kemper
Justus von Dohnányi
Onkel Julius
Ursula Werner
Heimpi
Rahel Hubacher
Mutter Zwirn
Anne Bennent
Madame Prune
Anne Schäfer
Rebecca Stein
Benjamin Sadler
Heinz Rosenfeld
Katharina Schlothauer
Fräulein Fischer
Raban Bieling
Junger Redakteur
Martin Hug
Lehrer Graupe
Ingo Ospelt
Arzt Zürich
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Based on Judith Kerr's semi-autobiographical 1971 novel; she waited decades to write it, initially telling her children it was fiction.
Kerr's real father was Alfred Kerr, Germany's most feared theater critic—Hitler personally added him to early arrest lists.
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