This unique documentary uses home footage filmed in Holland before and during WWII, showing events from the daily life of the Peereboom family and other scenes of occupied Holland. The story is told through these footages, as well as family photos and soundtrack that consists of period music, radio broadcasts (such as Queen Wilhelmina's speech of 1940) and authentic jazz music composed by Tibor Szemzo, regular partner of the film director Peter Forgacs. The viewer is exposed to Jewish family living naively in the shadow of the Holocaust and later trying to handle the new unfamiliar life. Among others, there is a...
A documentary film. Leonie Brandt was an actress. Later on, shebecame a spy for the Dutch intelligence service in Nazi Germany. After the war a number of prominent Dutchmen feared Leonie for what she knew about their actions during the occupation. The film follows the chronology of her life via scenes from old movies.