Martha Cohn – ALLIANCE OF WOMEN FILM JOURNALISTS

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 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.