Rent Spring 1941 (2008)

3.0 of 5 from 55 ratings
1h 35min
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Synopsis:
Successful doctor Artur Planck (Joseph Fiennes), his wife Clara (Neve Mcintosh) and their two daughters are seeking shelter from the Nazis storming Poland. They find a safe house in the farm of Emilia (Kelly Harrison), their local grocer who is all alone after her husband fought for his country and never returned. Amidst the horrors of the war that surrounds them, an impossible love triangle erupts as Emelia uncontrollably falls in love with Artur. Such a fragile arrangement is sustained by love - or is it just the will to survive? The answer to that question may not even be made known to those who make it out alive.
Actors:
Katarzyna Al Abbas, , , Adrianna Dzikowska, , , , Ewa Kurylo, Marysia Lewandowska, , ,
Directors:
Producers:
Rami Damri, Evyatar Dotan, Piotr Dzieciol, Yishai Mor
Writers:
Motti Lerner
Studio:
Point Blank
Genres:
Classics, Drama, Romance
Collections:
Films & TV by topic, Spring On Screen: Films to Watch This Season
Countries:
Israel
BBFC:
Release Date:
14/02/2011
Run Time:
95 minutes
Languages:
English Dolby Digital 2.1
DVD Regions:
Region 2
Formats:
Pal
Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen 1.78:1 / 16:9
Colour:
Colour

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Two women fight over man - why? - Spring 1941 review by SB

Spoiler Alert
26/07/2023

Joseph Fiennes is well cast as a nasty, weak man who betrays everyone - his wife, his daughters and even the peasant farmer woman who inexplicably lusts after him in this war film. The film blurb does not help audience understanding by implying that the events are those of the 1939 invasion of Poland - when it is actually set in the first part of 1941, just as the Germans are rounding up Polish Jews as part of the ghettoisation programme.

The stifling rural milieu which is the setting after the initial section is well drawn, and Neve McIntosh puts in a fine performance as the younger version of the wife who finds herself having to balance the lives of her daughter and herself against her husband's infidelities and erratic behaviour. Clare Higgins is also good as the older version of the character, part of the film being set in 1971 with quite complex but fairly clear flashbacks.

However, the events in the last twenty minutes of the film are shown in a confusing way, and it does not help viewers that all the characters speak in a dodgy Slavic accent. The somewhat portentous references to the source work add little.

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