Miracle at Moreaux

Miracle at Moreaux is a 1986 Made-for-TV film based on the novel Twenty and Ten by Claire Huchet Bishop. Set in France, the movie was filmed in Quebec and aired on PBS.

Summary

In the film, three Jewish children fleeing the Nazis take refuge in a French convent and boarding school run by a Catholic nun, Sister Gabrielle (Loretta Swit), after their guide taking them to Spain is killed. The children arrive while the school is putting on a Nativity pageant, and in a quick act of thinking, Sister Gabrielle pretends the three children are her students. The children remain in the school for some time while Nazis in the area, led by Sargeant Schlimmer (Robert Joy) hunt for them in the forests surrounding the convent. Sister Gabrielle takes great lengths to keep the children's identity a secret, but Sargeant Schlimmer is suspicious and continues to believe that the children could be hiding in the school. Meanwhile, the Jewish children have to cope with some of the Christian students who have negative attitudes towards Jews. Gradually, after teaching them about their religion, they win them over and become friends with the other children. Eventually, the entire school helps the children escape when they confuse the Nazis by dressing the Jewish and Catholic children in each other's clothing during a school play. While the Nazi soldiers are distracted by the wrong children, the real Jewish children flee towards the border and escape into Spain.

External links

• Miracle at Moreaux at the Internet Movie Database