Rosie the Reviewer: a WW2 movies and shows podcast

This week, we're back for the final part of A Small Light (2023), episodes seven and eight. The raid on the annex plays out almost word-for-word from Miep's memoir. These episodes run past the point where the popular story usually ends. We follow Miep, Jan and Otto all the way to the end and also shed some light on what happened to the people in the Annex and who the helpers were. And despite her very insistence in her book: Miep, you are a freaking hero.

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This week, we're back in the annex for part two of A Small Light (2023), episodes four to six. This is where Miep starts to crack: she shouts at two Nazis in the street, points at the ceiling every time someone says the word resistance, and finds out her best friend is nice, but not good.
As always, we compare it to Miep's memoir. Because on occasion, this stuff feels too crazy to be real.

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This week, we're discussing A Small Light (2023). The National Geographic/Disney+ miniseries tells the story of Miep Gies, the woman who helped hide Anne Frank and her family in the Secret Annex in Amsterdam for more than two years during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands.

In this first of three episodes, we cover the first three of the series’ eight episodes. We look at how the series opens, and how it compares with what Miep herself wrote in her memoir about that morning, including the weather, the coat and the checkpoint. We also talk about what the series invents or changes, from her best friend Tess to her adoptive brother Cas, and why those choices work on screen.🖥️ Visit our website: www.rosiethereviewer.com
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This week, we're discussing the classic Filipino film Oro, Plata, Mata (Gold, Silver, Death) (1982). This movie portrays class conflict, with WWII as an interesting backdrop. It's a visually stunning piece, with a perspective we don't often get in Western media, which, almost by default, makes for an interesting conversation in this episode.
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This week on Rosie, we're talking about Trial on the Road, a Soviet movie shot in 1971 but suppressed for 15 years and not released until 1986. It follows Red Army sergeant Lazarev, a former collaborator who tries to redeem himself with a partisan group operating behind German lines.

Any guesses as to why it was banned for so long?
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