There’s not much sense of how terrifying it must have been to walk down a Berlin street, passing as German, knowing that any break in your facade could mean interrogation, torture and an extermination camp. The four have fascinating, harrowing stories, of course, but the film itself lacks urgency. They look comfortable, their voices composed, and because the interviews took place some time ago, the faces are younger than you might expect. Watching them decades later is a disconcerting experience. The Invisibles is not an accurate title, because none of the four were invisible at the time. Eugen Friede sits at dinner with an officer whose head still bears the crease of his officer’s cap. They rent rooms, sometimes from friends of friends, or sometimes from the family of an SS officer. Their situations are dire they constantly worry that they’ll be discovered a slight hint of danger sends them scurrying off to find another hiding place.
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Instead of black and white pictures of haggard, haunted people in filthy gray striped camp uniforms, here are young people looking healthy and full of life. The Invisibles shows an unexpected image of Jews living under Nazism. According to the movie, 7,000 Jews hid out Berlin - 1,700 survived. And Hanni Lévy, at 17 an orphan, dyed her hair blond and managed to pass as Gentile. Ruth Gumpel describes dancing with her friends - barefoot so neighbors would not know of a roomful of Jewish children. Eugen Friede lived with a non-Jewish family and even went out on the streets in a German army uniform. The four were young, sometimes foolish, and sometimes they didn’t realize the dangers.Ĭioma Schönhaus forged documents. The Invisibles puts you off-balance from the start by looking at four survivors of the Holocaust, who as teenagers managed to live through the war right in the city of Berlin - a place Goebbels had declared free of Jews.ĭirector Claus Räfle joins interviews with the four many decades later, with sequences that dramatize their lives at the time, and bits of archival footage of Berlin during the war.
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