Saviors in the Night (Unter Bauern - Retter in der Nacht) is a German-French film directed by Ludi Boeken and starring Veronica Ferres and Armin Rohde.
The film is based on a true story and first premiered at the Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem, Yad Vashem.
Ferres plays Marga Spiegel, a Jewish woman, persecuted by the Nazis who eventually survived with the help of farmers in Westphalia.
[2] Westphalia in 1943: The Jew Siegmund "Menne" Spiegel, a horse dealer, does not want to lead his wife Marga and daughter Karin to their deaths, so he and his small family flee from the threat of deportation to the extermination camps in the East to join their previous customers and war comrades from the First World War.
"An important film against forgetting, which reminds without false pathos that one can follow one's conscience even in difficult times.Filming took place from mid-August to early October 2008, over 38 days in Dülmen, Billerbeck, Liesborn (Auf der Drift), Lippstadt, Oer-Erkenschwick, and other Westphalian locations, often using original props.