Film

The Nazi Officer's Wife

2003 · 1h 30m · Documentary

How one Jewish woman survived the Holocaust

IMDb

7.3

Rotten Tomatoes

85%

Metacritic

74

In 1938 Edith Hahn was a Viennese law student - a "Christmas-tree Jew" with a gentile boyfriend. In 1942 she was living under an assumed name in Munich and married to Werner Vetter, a Nazi party member who was later drafted into the Wehrmacht. Based on Hahn's acclaimed memoir, "The Nazi Officer's Wife" is the riveting account of how she survived the Holocaust by posing as an Aryan hausfrau. Despite the risks, she kept painstaking records including real and falsified documents and photos of labor camps. These moving artifacts along with testimony from Hahn and her daughter bring this tale of survival resilience and redemption to life.

Edith Hahn Beer

Herself

Julia Ormond

Edith Hahn (voice)

Susan Sarandon

Narrator (voice)

• Liz GarbusDirector
• Jack YoungelsonScreenplay
• Edith Hahn BeerNovel

Release date

May 9, 2003

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

1h 30m

Genres

Documentary

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