Walking With The Enemy Movie

The 2014 film, Walking with the Enemy directed by Mark Schmidt, is a true story about a man named Pinchas Rosenbaum who wore a Nazi uniform during the war to save thousands of Jews. In the fictional retelling of the story, Elek Cohen, a Hungarian Rabbi’s son, took extraordinary measures to save his family and other Jews from the Nazi soldiers during the final months of World War II. In Budapest, Hungary, there is a bubbling conflict between the German and the Hungarian Government. After Elek Cohen and Ferenc Jacobson escape from a labor farm, they find out the Nazi regime has taken over their village, so they keep on the run trying to find their families and escape death. Meanwhile, the Head of the Swiss Diplomatic office, Carl Lutz, is saving Jews with Swiss passports and any Jews who are not caught by the Nazi soldiers. Also, the Hungarian Government is working diligently to surrender to the Allies, without Hitler knowing about it, but they are unsuccessful and the Hungarian fascist Arrow Cross Party assumes power over Hungary by Ferenc Szalasi, and they round up all the hungarian Jews. During this time period, Cohen and Jacobson try to save as many Jewish families as possible and eventually begin to work with the Lutz. Cohen and Jacobson are

Schmidt changed these details to make the story more interesting, and to show the audience how awesome Elek Cohen is. Rosenbaum did save thousands of Jews by wearing an Arrow Cross uniform, and he should be given credit for all the heroic things he had done for his people. Schmidt may have changed these details due to his own moral dilemma by wanting to add more interesting stories to gain more revenue from the film, and while he has never directly stated that in any interview the movie made millions off of the extra stories of Elek