![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But Switzerland, where the people, according to Anna, only “think” they speak German, has things to offer such as a rock and, of course, a mountain or two. She begins to draw a series of “disasters” beginning with a shipwreck. Anna mourns the loss of her friends and classmates and family home. How this uprooting affects his children and his wife is the subject of the story. When Arthur, on his sickbed with the flu, finds out that the Nazis plan to confiscate his passport and make it impossible for him to leave the country, he flees to Prague and then brings his entire family to Switzerland. The film beings in Berlin in 1933 and tells the story of 9-year-old Anna Kemper (the delightful Riva Krymalowski) and her Jewish family: her older brother Max (Marinus Hohmann), who calls her “little man,” her father Arthur (Oliver Masucci), a critic and journalist wanted by the Nazis, and her beautiful musician mother Dorothea (Carla Juri). While not going the full “Jojo Rabbit,” similarly bunny-minded “When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit, which is based on a best-selling children’s book by Judith Kerr, is not your ordinary Holocaust-era entry. ![]()
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