Synopsis
During the harrows of WWII, Jo, a young shepherd along with the help of the widow Horcada, helps to smuggle Jewish children across the border from southern France into Spain.
Waiting for Anya
2020 Directed by Ben Cookson
Cast
Noah Schnapp Thomas Kretschmann Frederick Schmidt Tómas Lemarquis Gilles Marini Elsa Zylberstein Joséphine de la Baume Sadie Frost Jean Reno Urs Rechn Anjelica Huston Declan Cole Enola Izquierdo Cicuendez Amandine Rose Mathys Gallet-Lartigue Laurent Pedebernard Jean-François Balmer Dolma Raisson Raj Awasti Kevin Kain Lukas Sauer Sylvain Bressolles Patrice Yan Michael Morpurgo Steffen Wild Alan Latham Paul Stephenson William Abadie Nicholas Rowe
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Peter Baldock Ben Carr Simon Gershon Jonathan Smith Patrick Singer Vincent Maloumian Aris Anastassopoulos Kristiana Udre James Matthews Tanay Nambiar Olivia Celeste Barry
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Alternative Titles
À Espera de Anya, 安雅的回家路, アーニャは、きっと来る, Čekání na Aňu, Nur ein einziges Leben, В ожидании Ани, Čekání na Anyu, Περιμένοντας την Άνια, 等待安雅, O Menino e a Guerra, Aspettando Anya, Anya, Aniára várva, Czekając na Anyę, Flykten över Pyrenéerna, Anya'yı Beklerken, 웨이팅 포 안야, В очікуванні Ані, Čakanie na Anyu
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Theatrical limited
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USA
Theatrical
14 Feb 2020
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Ireland
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UK
13 Mar 2020
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Taiwan普遍級
Digital
07 Feb 2020
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USANR
14 Jul 2020
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France
11 Mar 2021
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Germany12
Physical
08 Jun 2020
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UK12
15 Jul 2020
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France
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France
14 Jul 2020
- Digital
15 Jul 2020
- Physical DVD
Germany
11 Mar 2021
- Digital12
Ireland
14 Feb 2020
- Theatrical
Taiwan
13 Mar 2020
- Theatrical普遍級
UK
14 Feb 2020
- Theatrical
08 Jun 2020
- Physical12 DVD
USA
07 Feb 2020
- Theatrical limited
07 Feb 2020
- DigitalNR
Popular reviews
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Waiting For Anya tried to tell an interesting story, but leads you away from the storyline, with the vague writing, horrible editing, and slow scenes, that don’t keep you focused one bit.
I personally only found love in this film with Noah Schnapp, I thought he did the best that he could to save this film from 💩! Not even the performance from Academy Award Winner Anjelica Houston was good, only Schnapp.
But overall, this film really didn’t sell it for me, which is a shame cause if you read the bio of this film, it SOUNDS GOOD, but when u watch it, it really doesn’t hold up, and bores you half the time.
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the execution of this was quite poor. it was incredibly dull and long, and didn’t have much impact on me. i liked the scenery though and some decent acting.
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Remember when Will from Stranger Things was in a awful WWII Nazi movie with Leon the Professional and Morticia Addams about smuggling Jewish children across Spain's border to safety? Me either.
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Mildly interesting but ultimately bland. It did keep my interest but I wouldn’t recommend.
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There are dozens and dozens of other WWII movies you should watch before ever considering this one. Were it not for the subject matter, it might be comically bad. Will from Stranger Things is the lead as a french boy in Nazi-occupied France and he acts just like French Will Byers might.
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Felt like one of those movies that's shown in literature class on Thursday and Friday after you’ve handed in your essay on the novel.
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What is this one about? During the harrows of WWII, Jo, a young shepherd along with the help of the widow Horcada, helps to smuggle Jewish children across the border from southern France into Spain.
My thoughts on this one? A nice surprise. Movie looks amazing. It is filled with some solid acting performances throughout. This is based on a true story, and it is cool to see this bravery played out in a movie. Movie does a good job of showing that not all German were evil people.
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Decepcionante.
Para ler mais: cinema-filmeseseriados.blogspot.com/2021/03/waiting-for-anya.html
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May as well; Superman sure is taking his sweet time for some reason. Whether it'll take him or American charter schools to save children in this dire of a situation, it's a schmaltzy English-language Holocaust movie, so they may very well be saved by Bip the Clow-wait a minute. Though there have been "stranger things" than a teenage shepherd saving the day, Noah Schnapp's Jo Lalande has enough to worry about with his father in a POW camp and Hitler's regime fast-approaching the South of France. Somewhere in the distracting throes of his incessant daily chores on the farm, he discovers a number of Jewish children being hidden by a kindly widow and her son-in-law. The latter is a prolific…
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Ben Cookson’s thriller in which a young shepherd boy (Noah Schnapp) and a reclusive widow (Anjelica Huston) smuggle Jewish refugees into Spain during the horrors of World War II.
Waiting for Anya is adapted from the novel of the same name by Michael Morpurgo, which was published three decades earlier, but the final product is one that, although starts off good, ends up being a disappointment.
Throughout the ploughs of the Second World War, Jo (Noah Schnapp), a young shepherd along with the assistance of the widow Horcada (Anjelica Huston), supports to traffic Jewish children through the border from southern France into Spain.
Noah Schnapp gives an okay performance in his role as Jo, the young shepherd boy who helps…
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Important context, and while I have not read the book you can tell this one was adapted from what appears to be fairly decent source material.
But the script is really hard to look past, particularly when it comes to the dialogue, leaving so much of this feeling trite, far too simple a story, and wooden. So much so that any potential that might have been there in terms of performance is simply handcuffed and wasted.
A film like this shouldn't be cringe inducing, but the way it is written makes it feel exactly that.