The Windermere Children

About The Windermere Children

The story of the pioneering project to rehabilitate child survivors of the Holocaust on the shores of Lake Windermere.

The Windermere Children (2020) is a history war film directed by Michael Samuels. It runs 88 minutes and was released in January 2020.

Its themes are childhood trauma, post world war ii, kindness, and holocaust (shoah) survivor. The story is adapted from real events.

Thomas Kretschmann stars as Oscar Friedmann, Romola Garai as Marie Paneth, Iain Glen as Jock Lawrence, and Tim McInnerny as Leonard Montefiore. The screenplay is by Simon Block. Production companies include Wall to Wall and Warner Bros. International Television Production Germany. It streams on PBS Masterpiece Amazon Channel in the United States.

The Photographer of Mauthausen, The Monuments Men, and The Cat Returns make useful companions to The Windermere Children, all filed under concentration camp survivor. TMDB voters put it at 7.4 out of 10 across 122 votes and it carries a NR rating.