Anya

Original title: Waiting for Anya

IMDb RATING

6.0/10

2.1K

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Jean Reno, Sadie Frost, Anjelica Huston, Thomas Kretschmann, Urs Rechn, Nicholas Rowe, Elsa Zylberstein, William Abadie, Tómas Lemarquis, Gilles Marini, Joséphine de La Baume, Phin Glynn, Frederick Schmidt, Raj Awasti, Noah Schnapp, and Lukas Sauer in Anya (2020)

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During the harrows of WWII, Jo, a young shepherd along with the help of the widow Horcada, helps to smuggle Jewish children across the border from southern France into Spain.During the harrows of WWII, Jo, a young shepherd along with the help of the widow Horcada, helps to smuggle Jewish children across the border from southern France into Spain.During the harrows of WWII, Jo, a young shepherd along with the help of the widow Horcada, helps to smuggle Jewish children across the border from southern France into Spain.

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IMDb RATING

6.0/10

2.1K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 3 nominations total

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s-01711

Boring

Extremely hard to follow i still don't know what was happening.

7bryangary65

Decent...

..enough drama which would have appeal to a teenage audience in particular Beautifully location also

8asunnasy

An enjoyable and informative film for the entire family.

Waiting For Anya tells the story of a small village in the French Pyrenees. The scenery is beautiful and you'll feel immersed.

I think many people looking to learn more about the time period will enjoy this film.

6ariagfrye

Missing something

This movie is missing something. A very retold story. I was excited to watch it at first, as Noah Schnapp is in it. Yet I just wasn't satisfied. It was boring and rather unsuspenseful. My family wasn't entertained and only I finished the movie. There could've been more to happen. It was so plain, reminded me of like a plain grain muffin. As someone who is a HUGEEE history buff, I've seen a lot of films very similar. This movie does not have much to it.

6Jack_Brock

A war movie for children

OK movie set in southern France during the waning years of WW2. Noah Schnapp stars as Jo, a young French boy who finds a man hiding in the woods while he is helping out with the family's sheep. He follows him to a neighbor's house and discovers that the house is being used to harbor Jews who are travelling to Spain for safety.

The movie is intended for younger audiences and many of the scary elements you would see in similar movies has been considerably toned down. Even the German army that has occupied the town seem oddly tame.

While the movie is well acted, the characters lack any depth and are rather cliched. Noah Scnapp and Anjelica Huston are oddly cast being American. The movie is OK overall.

Better movies in this genre are Downfall, Au Revoir Les Enfants; and Schindler's List.

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Trivia
The medals that the grandfather wears on his coat for large parts of the movie are the general medal for voluntary military service and the Verdun campaign medal. He mentions that he fought at the Battle of Verdun (1916), the bloodiest battle of the First World War in which more than half a million French soldiers died, as well as 400,000 Germans.

Goofs
The Corporal recites to Jo a poem he says is an old German poem. As he recites it, however, the rhyming scheme is in English with words that would not rhyme in German.