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Critic Reviews
The TimesMar 31, 2020
Season 1 Review:
The decision to introduce the real Jewish concentration camp survivors, now in their nineties, on whom those children's characters had been based was inspired, a sucker punch to dispel any faint notion that this was an embellishment. We had glimpsed the traumatised, brutalised teenagers these dignified elderly men had been. Even without it this drama had been extraordinary. ... Its strength was in its understatement, the orphans' experiences eked out delicately, the temptation to ramp things up for dramatic effect resisted.
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The TelegraphMar 31, 2020
Season 1 Review:
It would have been easy for The Windermere Children to tip over into sentimentality. ... And it would have been easier still to portray the carers (Tim McInnerny as Montefiore, Iain Glen as a sports coach, Romola Garai as an art therapist) as saviours. But they remained secondary to the excellent young cast, many of whom had never acted before. ... Writer Simon Block and director Michael Samuels gave us a sad and beautiful film.
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The IndependentMar 31, 2020
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