Süskind
2012 · Movie · 117 min · ★ 7.0 · 62% critics
Set in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam, this historical drama follows a council member who uses his position to help smuggle hundreds of children away from concentration camps. It centers on quiet courage, moral pressure, and the risks of resisting oppression from within a tightly controlled system.
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Details
- Years
- 2012
- Release date
- 2012-01-19
- Language
- Dutch
- Runtime
- 117 min
- Max quality
- HD
- Critic score
- 62/100
- TMDB rating
- 7.0/10 (48 votes)
About
If you respond to wartime stories of courage under pressure like The Zookeeper's Wife or Resistance, this offers a tense, humane rescue drama; Not for you if you avoid bleak Holocaust-era material or sustained peril.
Pros: urgent historical stakes; brave central mission; emotionally involving | Cons: heavy subject matter; wartime cruelty; tense atmosphere
Themes
- ss (nazi schutzstaffel)
- antisemitism
- discrimination
- nazi occupation
Cast & crew
Jeroen Spitzenberger
as Walter Süskind
Karl Markovics
as Ferdinand Aus der Fünten
Nyncke Beekhuyzen
as Hanna Süskind
Katja Herbers
as Fanny Philips
Golda de Leon
as Yvonne Süskind
Nasrdin Dchar
as Felix Halverstadt
Tygo Gernandt
as Piet Meerburg
Krijn ter Braak
as Dr. Edwin Schützer
Olga Zuiderhoek
as Henriette Pimentel
Chava Voor in 't Holt
as Sylvie
Directed by Rudolf van den Berg