Edges of the Lord
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Edges of the Lord is a 2000 film set in Poland during World War II that depicts a Jewish boy (Haley Joel Osment) who is hidden from the occupying Germans by posing as the Catholic nephew of a local farmer, with the aid of a local priest, played by (Willem Dafoe). While it was critically acclaimed, the film was denied a theatrical release in America. The most probable reason for this denial is that the film presents a more balanced picture of the suffering of Polish Christians alongside their Jewish compatriots during the occupation and it also portrays Poles as doing the righteous thing by saving Jews and exacting retribution against those who would betray them to the Germans or abuse and murder them for profit. Recent productions of Holocaust related material are fraught with portrayal of Poles as virulently anti-Semitic, which was clearly not generally to the point of betrayal of Jews to the SS for profit. Such activity was, actually, punishable by death as meted out by the Polish Underground known as the Home Army (Armia Krajowa).
