My mother's courage

"Budapest 1944, George Tabori's mother is arrested by the Hungarian secret police and brought to the West Station where around four thousand Jews have been rounded up for deportation to Auschwitz. Those that have been selected for deportation are transported in cattle trucks to the "Gate of Death", a border town where they are offloaded until they can be brought to the death camps. Through a mixture of courage, cunning and insubordination, Tabori's mother manages to escape and return to Budapest. This film, set during WWII, was co-written by acclaimed playwright George Tabori and features Tabori as both narrator and observer during the filming of incidents from his mother's life. This was director Michael Verhoeven's third film that focused on the holocaust in Europe, following Das Schreckliche Madchen and Eine Unheilige Liebe."
"Elsa is an outgoing woman who tackles her daily tasks cheerfully. Even when she is arrested for deportation, her unquestioning cooperation and inability to consider a montrously horrific reality demonstrate how millions of people were manipulated to their doom. Equally obedient, the German officers have their orders to follow. The true account of the deportation of over 4,000 Jews to Auschwitz in July of 1944, and how one mother's simple act of quiet defiance evaded deportation to Auschwitz - and certain death."@en