People are comparing this to Schindler's List and the Pianist? In the 1970s and with a less known director than Speilburg, this film shows and makes you CARE about it's characters.
The target audience was families, while both Schindler's List and the Pianist were rated 'R' meaning kids under 17 aren't even allowed in unless accompanied by a parent (that didn't care how graphic of violence they saw).
I saw this film in the theater as a kid. I couldn't have done so with the other two films even if I had still been one when they were made. I have seen it again as an adult recently and decided to comment, especially after reading the comment about it not stacking up to the above mentioned films....
Unlike Schindler, whom Speilburg made out to be doing it at first for the savings on how much he paid the workers and only much later did he realize he was saving human lives and unlike the Pianist which showed a man who didn't really perceive what Nazi policies would do until it was too late, HIDING PLACE showed that Mr Ten Boom and his daughters DID KNOW and DID CARE about the safety of the Jews.
They took a known risk and all but Corrie suffered the ultimate penalty for choosing to save Jewish lives and for recognizing them as human, not what Hitler said they were.
The film far from sugar coats what the Nazis did. It is plain for every adult to see that the prison camps were abominable. Chain gangs for women, lice, rapes done by soldiers, people brutally injured for helping with medicine, others killed for being too sick to work.
Plus the film had it's only surviving heroine at the end of the film to say a few words. Powerful stuff.
The target audience was families, while both Schindler's List and the Pianist were rated 'R' meaning kids under 17 aren't even allowed in unless accompanied by a parent (that didn't care how graphic of violence they saw).
I saw this film in the theater as a kid. I couldn't have done so with the other two films even if I had still been one when they were made. I have seen it again as an adult recently and decided to comment, especially after reading the comment about it not stacking up to the above mentioned films....
Unlike Schindler, whom Speilburg made out to be doing it at first for the savings on how much he paid the workers and only much later did he realize he was saving human lives and unlike the Pianist which showed a man who didn't really perceive what Nazi policies would do until it was too late, HIDING PLACE showed that Mr Ten Boom and his daughters DID KNOW and DID CARE about the safety of the Jews.
They took a known risk and all but Corrie suffered the ultimate penalty for choosing to save Jewish lives and for recognizing them as human, not what Hitler said they were.
The film far from sugar coats what the Nazis did. It is plain for every adult to see that the prison camps were abominable. Chain gangs for women, lice, rapes done by soldiers, people brutally injured for helping with medicine, others killed for being too sick to work.
Plus the film had it's only surviving heroine at the end of the film to say a few words. Powerful stuff.