The Windermere Children

In post-World War II England, a humanitarian effort spearheaded by psychologist Oscar Friedmann (Thomas Kretschmann) and philanthropist Leonard Montefiore (Tim McInnerny) brought hundreds of boys and girls liberated from the German camps to a lakeside estate for counseling, education, and hopeful integration into British society. The orphans' life-affirming odyssey is movingly dramatized in this BBC effort; Romola Garai, Iain Glen, Pascal Fischer, Tomasz Studzinski, Anna Schumacher co-star. 88 min. Widescreen; Soundtrack: English; bonus documentary "The Windemere Children: In Their Own Words" (2020). Two-disc set.