Corrie and Betsie ten Boom are middle-aged sisters working in their father's watchmaker shop in pre-World War II Holland. Their uneventful lives are disrupted with the coming of the Nazis. Suspected of hiding Jews and caught breaking rationing rules, they are sent to a concentration camp, where their Christian faith keeps them from despair and bitterness.
Acting
Julie Harris radiates otherworldly grace as doomed Betsie.
Writing
Dialogue that makes faith feel lived-in, not preachy.
Director
James F. Collier
Julie Harris
Betsie ten Boom
Arthur O'Connell
Casper ten Boom, 'Papa'
Tom van Beek
Dr. Heemstra
Nigel Hawthorne
Pastor De Ruiter
John Gabriel
Professor Zeiner
Bernard Kay
Fred Koonstra
David de Keyser
Eusie Koonstra
Norman Rodway
Van Der Veen
Carole Ann Ford
Woman
Michael Sheard
Kapteyn
Eileen Heckart
Katje
Bernard Archard
Lt. Rahms
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Filmed in part at the actual ten Boom house in Haarlem, now a museum. Corrie ten Boom herself visited the set.
The film's gentle pacing deliberately mirrors Corrie's memoir—refusing Hollywood heroics to honor how ordinary people become extraordinary through sustained, unglamorous choices.
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