Besides Jojo Rabbit (2019) it is the second 2019-released movie that involves Hitler and has the word "Rabbit" in the title.
This is the second directorial work of Caroline Link that is set in the time period of the Third Reich. The first one was Nowhere in Africa (2001) for which Link won an Academy Award® for Best International Feature Film.
EPILOGUE: "In 1935 Judith Kerr and her family emigrated to England. After the war she studied art and worked as an illustrator of children's books. Her brother Michael studied law and became the first foreign-born judge of the High Court of Justice. When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit was translated into 20 languages and made Judith Kerr world-famous. Judith Kerr died in May 2019 at the age of 95 in London. There she had found the home she had longed for."
A photograph of the real Alfred and Judith Kerr, ca. 1934, is then shown.
A photograph of the real Alfred and Judith Kerr, ca. 1934, is then shown.
When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit is the first book in the Judith Kerr trilogy and a well-known novel for children. It is based upon the early life of the author whose Jewish father, noted drama critic, journalist and screenwriter Alfred Kerr, was wanted by the Nazis.
The book gives a distinctive child's perspective on the rise of Nazism in 1930s Germany and the experience of being a refugee, reflecting Kerr's positive feelings about her own experience. The story starts in Berlin, in March 1933, when nine-year-old Anna, the main character in the trilogy, finds out one morning that her father is missing. She and her brother, Max, discover that Papa thinks that Adolf Hitler might win the elections, and has fled to Prague. Because the family is of Jewish heritage, and Papa is also a well-known critic of the Nazis, this is important. If Hitler wins the elections, Mama, Max and Anna will join Papa in Switzerland. If Hitler loses, then Papa will come back home to Berlin.
The book gives a distinctive child's perspective on the rise of Nazism in 1930s Germany and the experience of being a refugee, reflecting Kerr's positive feelings about her own experience. The story starts in Berlin, in March 1933, when nine-year-old Anna, the main character in the trilogy, finds out one morning that her father is missing. She and her brother, Max, discover that Papa thinks that Adolf Hitler might win the elections, and has fled to Prague. Because the family is of Jewish heritage, and Papa is also a well-known critic of the Nazis, this is important. If Hitler wins the elections, Mama, Max and Anna will join Papa in Switzerland. If Hitler loses, then Papa will come back home to Berlin.