Maudlin, bloodless tale of life next door to the Nazis.

Rating: 6/10 (2 January 2019)

Well acted, immersive environment so great production design, but not up to the standards of the best of 80s TV movies, especially on the holocaust. Maudlin all over, in a painfully cloying way too often. Narrator totally blew it for me. The kids don't grow up. Which makes it hard to to follow that this goes on for like a 5 year period, plus they act like their starting age (12?) even 5 years later when they should not be.
And also, bloodless. for 90% of this film this would be great. It's village life to the
jedermann, they see politics, what the war means to them, etc. remotely. But none of the bad seeping through sticks really. Dad thinks he may have run afoul of the rules, and they will come get him, but... we don't feel the peril as none is really shown.
Flat. Boring.