I slik en natt

The title of the film is borrowed from a poem by Wergeland called the Jew, and is also based on true events from the fall 1942.

The film deals about the German Gestapos hunt for Jewish children one night during the world war 2. A group of orphanages manages to escape from the Gestapo helped by a young doctor played by Anne Lise Tangstad. The children are transported to a farm and kept safe there, waiting for another transport over the border to Sweden.

Moes use of real German actors, Günther Hüttmann and Ottakar Panning, both speaking German in the film, adds an element of realism to the film. The director had himself experienced the terror of the SS-officers and saw the importance of Germans in these roles.

Today the film can be viewed upon as another Norwegian post war film. This film is made after NI LIV from 1957, and if it`s nomination from the Academy Awards has something to do with the making of I SLIK EN NATT is not known. Before his last film as director, I SLIK EN NATT, Moe made the year before a family crimefilm, PETER VAN HEEREN.

Does the jewish children make the border to Sweden, and what happens to the beautiful doctor? You have to watch it to find out.