Coal Dreams

<p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>An emotional look into the fate of the more than twenty million forced laborers in Hitler's Third Reich-an impossible love for a German woman and the endurance of the human spirit to find a way to freedom.</strong></p><p></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Bochum Germany April 1943: </strong><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>While her husband has been at war for three years twenty-five-year-old Marie Heinrich ekes out a living on a small farm. Her goats whose milk and cheese help her survive are her pride and joy. Until the SS confiscates the animals and Marie is forced to take a job at the nearby Schwarzenberg coal mine.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Lyon France April 1943:</strong><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> Adrien Rocheau's shoulder wound from the war has barely healed when the SS arrests and forces him on a train to Germany. In Bochum he is assigned to the Schwarzenberg mine. Since he speaks fluent German-his mother is from Alsace-he occasionally escapes the claustrophobic pit as a translator. With Adrien's support Marie who registers the newly arrived forced laborers finds a way to communicate with the strangers.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Grateful for his help she slips the Frenchman a little bread and a spare shirt. But socializing with foreign workers is strictly forbidden and punishable by law. While Adrien and his comrades slave away up to fourteen hours a day and quickly grow weaker Marie searches for a way to help the men. If only it weren't for her spying neighbor and her controlling boss...</span></p><p></p>