The Shadow Hour (2021) on Netflix
In 1942 in Berlin, Germany, the Christian writer Jochen Klepper lives with his Jewish wife and daughter. Their applications to emigrate are rejected.
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Plot summary
In 1942, Christian writer Jochen Klepper lived with his Jewish wife and daughter in Berlin, Germany. Their applications to emigrate got rejected and they became part of the last and sad defense of the Jewish-Christian community.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Shadow Hour (2021)
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- The film was shot in only eleven days: filming ran in Speyer until August 2019, with further footage shot in Darmstadt, Wiesbaden and the Allgäu.
- The film was shot in a square format, which the director chose to express the confinement that the Klepper family and the whole Jewish community experienced at that time.
- The real Jochen Klepper met the Jewish widow Johanna Stein of Nuremberg in April 1929 and married her in March 1931; he was 28, she was 13 years his senior.
- Called up to the Wehrmacht in late November 1940, Klepper served as a soldier from December 1940 to October 1941, until he was discharged as unworthy of military service because of his "non-Aryan marriage".
SPOILER
The family took their own lives together in the night of 10 to 11 December 1942, using sleeping pills and gas.
