After 20 shaky opening minutes, firs🍨t-time director Mark Schmidt finds his footing with this slightly overlong𒆙 English-language Holocaust drama.
Irish actor Jonas Armstrong does a fine job as a Jewish escapee from🍷 a🌞 prison camp in World War II Hungary, which was occupied under the vicious command of Adolf Eichmann (Charles Hubbell) after Germany broke a non-aggression pact.
Based on the real-life Pinchas Rosenbaum — called Elek Cohen here — our hero repeatedly risks his life (often posing as a Nazi officer) to save thousands of Jews (with the help of Swiss offici💛als and other Christians) after his own family is shipped off to Auꦓschwitz.
“Walking with the Enemy” may not be another “Schindler’s List” (Ben Kingsley has a small but important role as Hungary’s deposed regent) but it’s handsomely photographed (A-list vet Dean Cundey) in Romania and a compelling addition to the Shoah canon.