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MOVIE OF THE WEEK January 17, 2020: CHICHINETTE: THE ACCIDENTAL SPY

January 12, 2020January 19, 2020 Jennifer Merin 0 Comments betsy bozdech, chichinette, how i accidentally became a spy, jennifer merin, leslie combemale, liz whittemore, loren king, marina antunes, marthe cohn, maryann johanson, motw, Movie of the Week, nazi germany, nicola hens, nikki baughan, Pam Grady, Sheila Roberts, the accidental spy

Telling your story — bearing witness to your own life and those of the people you’ve loved (and lost) — is one of the most powerful things someone can do, especially when they’ve lived through historic events. But it’s not always easy, as we learn from watching Nicola Hens’ engaging documentary Chichinette: The Accidental Spy about former WWII spy Marthe Cohn, who, now nearly 100 years old, still travels the world sharing her experiences with others.

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CHICHINETTE: THE ACCIDENTAL SPY – Review by Leslie Combemale

January 7, 2020January 12, 2020 Leslie Combemale 0 Comments chichinette, documentaries, marthe cohn, motw, Movie of the Week, nicola hens

For decades after the war, Marthe Huffnung Cohn, the subject of Nicola Alice Hens’s documentary Chichinette: The Accidental Spy, didn’t talk about her experience as a Holocaust survivor and Nazi fighter during World War II. Chichinette, loosely translated from French, means “little pain in the neck”. In watching the film, we get a sense of Cohn’s tenacity and the independent thinking that guided her from an early age. She was clearly a feminist from childhood, if feminism means believing women can and should be allowed to do all the things men do.

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CHICHINETTE: THE ACCIDENTAL SPY – Review by Pam Grady

January 7, 2020January 12, 2020 Pam Grady 0 Comments chichinette, documentaries, Martha Cohn, Movie of the Week, nicola hens

Someday, some enterprising filmmaker will no doubt turn into thrilling drama Marthe Cohn’s eventful life as a Jewish woman who resisted the Nazis in France. But Cohn has lived a long enough life that filmmaker Nicola Alice Hens was able to commit the real woman and her memories to film in this entrancing documentary.

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CHICHINETTE: THE ACCIDENTAL SPY – Review by Sheila Roberts

January 7, 2020January 12, 2020 Sheila Roberts (Archived Contributor) 0 Comments chichinette, documentaries, marthe cohn, motw, Movie of the Week, nicola hens, the accidntal spy

Like many of her brilliant contemporaries — U.S. Supreme Court Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Holocaust survivor and renowned sex therapist Dr. Ruth Westheimer, and acclaimed Canadian zoologist Dr. Anne Innis Dagg come immediately to mind – World War II spy Marthe Cohn’s crucial work behind enemy lines is finally receiving some well-deserved recognition in an inspiring documentary.

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CHICHINETTE: THE ACCIDENTAL SPY – Review by Susan Wloszczyna

January 7, 2020January 12, 2020 Susan Wloszczyna 0 Comments accidental spy, chichinette, documentaries, Martha Cohn, Movie of the Week, nazi germany, nicola hens

During this chaotic time of near-constant political upheaval, we need all the heroes we can get. Thanks to documentary filmmaker Nicola Alice Hens, we meet one in the unlikely form of a tiny yet feisty 96-year-old German-born Jewish woman named Marthe Cohn who managed to change the course of World War II by working for the French Resistance and saving the lives of countless Allied soldiers as the conflict came to a close.