This Ordinary Thing

THIS ORDINARY THING is a documentary film about non-Jews who helped Jews during the Holocaust. 

The film consists of readings from transcripts from interviews with over forty different people all over Europe who, working independently and at great risk to themselves and their families, saved Jews from almost certain death.  It's about pockets of goodness in a sea of evil, people helping people who were "different" from them.

The cast, including Dame Helen Mirren, F. Murray Abraham, Carrie Coon, Jeremy Irons, Ellen Burstyn, and Stephen Fry, among others has amassed five Oscars (over twenty nominations), over sixty Emmy nominations, and over twenty-five Tony nominations in their illustrious careers. 

The Executive Producer is Albert M. Tapper (Broadway Musicals: A Jewish Legacy).  The music for the film is by Tony-Award winning composer Adam Guettel (The Light in the Piazza, Floyd Collins), and the film is edited by Josh Freed (Once Upon a Time in Queens).  Color portraits are by Gay Block.