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Waiting for Anya is a 2020 historical war drama film co-written and directed by Ben Cookson. It is a film adaptation of the 1990 novel of the same name by Michael Morpurgo. [ 4][ 5][ 6] The film stars Noah Schnapp, Thomas Kretschmann, Frederick Schmidt, Jean Reno, and Anjelica Huston. The film premiered at the 2020 Miami Jewish Film Festival ...
Feb 7, 2020 · Waiting for Anya: Directed by Ben Cookson. With Noah Schnapp, Thomas Kretschmann, Frederick Schmidt, Tómas Lemarquis. During the harrows of WWII, Jo, a young shepherd along with the help of the widow Horcada, helps to smuggle Jewish children across the border from southern France into Spain.
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- Drama, Thriller, War
- Ben Cookson
- 2020-02-07
Feb 7, 2020 · Powered by JustWatch. "Waiting for Anya" begins with a helpful explanation of what was going on in 1942, the first indicator that the target audience may be those who have not yet learned some basic history about WWII. It is not the last. The film is based on a popular YA book by Michael Morpurgo, author of The War Horse, and it is inspired by ...
Great camera work. Rated 5/5 Stars • 05/27/24. It is 1942 WWII and the Germans have taken control of Northern France. A Jewish man, Benjamin takes his daughter, Anya, to a train station leaving ...
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- Noah Schnapp
- Ben Cookson
- Goldfinch Studios
Waiting for Anya. Waiting for Anya is a children's novel by Michael Morpurgo, first published in Great Britain in 1990, by William Heinemann. It is set in Lescun, in a mountainous region of southern France on the border with Spain. [ 1] It was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal. [ 2] It was adapted as a film of the same title released in 2020.
- Michael Morpurgo
- 1990
During the harrows of World War II, a young boy, Jo (Noah Schnapp), stumbles upon a dangerous secret: children are being smuggled out of Nazi-occupied France...
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- 235.5K
- Vertical
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Waiting for Anya From the author of War Horse, a shepherd-boy risks everything to help smuggle Jewish children into Spain from German-occupied France. 1,157 IMDb 6.0 1 h 49 min 2020