War of Resistance (film)
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97% Rotten Tomatoes Director Peter C. Spencer Language English | 4.8/10 IMDb Country United States Cinematography Philip Roy Music director Kyle Robertson | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date August 22, 2011 (2011-08-22) (United Kingdom) Screenplay Peter C. Spencer, Bart Gavigan Writer Bart Gavigan, Peter C. Spencer (screenplay) Similar The Hiding Place (film), The King Maker, Cyborg Cop, The Great White Hype, Prisoners of the Sun (film), Apocalypse Pompeii | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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War of Resistance, also known as Return to the Hiding Place, is a 2011 American film directed by Peter C. Spencer and starring John Rhys-Davies, Mimi Sagadin and Craig Robert Young. The film tells the story of Corrie ten Boom and the Dutch Resistance during World War II.
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When a young resistance fighter witnesses atrocities towards the Jews, he's drawn into a web of espionage and clandestine activities. When he meets a young physics students and resistance journalist - Hans Poley - they embark on a hunt through underground tunnels, Gestapo hijacks and daring rescues.
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Background
On May 15, 1940, German occupation of the Netherlands began with her surrender, food and materials were rationed and evening curfews were imposed, gradually tightening from 10:00 pm to 6:00 pm. Persecution of the Jewish population also had a gradual implementation, beginning with the requirement of wearing a yellow star bearing the name Jew, to attacks against Jewish businesses and places of worship, culminating in the mass transport of Jewish citizens to unknown locations. Conspiracy theories were beginning to emerge concerning the fate of those who were being transported to the concentration camps. Corrie ten Boom (15 April 1892 – 15 April 1983) and her family were actively involved in the Dutch underground, inviting the persecuted to live in their home and creating a hidden room to conceal them during searches. Hans Poley, a young Christian was the first guest and benefactor of the ten Boom family's extraordinary hospitality in May 1943.
Poley's persecution began when he refused to sign the Nazi Manifesto which reads in part:
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