2013 War documentary
United Kingdom/Germany/USA
1h 23min
Original language: English, German, Yiddish
PG-13
G
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In 1942, 38 men, women and children slide down a cold, muddy hole in the ground, seeking refuge from the war above in a pitch-black underground world where no human had gone before. These five Ukrainian Jewish families created their own society where young men bravely ventured into the harrowing night to collect food, supplies and chop firewood. The girls and women never left; surviving underground longer than anyone in recorded history. Held together by an iron-willed matriarch, after 511 days, the cave dwellers, ages 2 to 76, emerged at war's end in tattered clothes, blinded by a sun some children forgot existed. Despite all odds, they had survived.
Directed by | Janet Tobias |
Company | Magnolia PicturesEyeSteelFilmEyeSteelFilm |