Tortoises

A renowned writer and his wife live quietly in a beautiful villa outsideVienna, until the triumphant Nazis start subjecting their Jewish "hosts" to ever greater humiliations. Veza Canetti focuses on seemingly ordinary people to epitomize the horror: one flag-happy German kills a sparrow before a group of little children; another, more entrepreneurialNazi brands tortoises with swastikas to sell as souvenirs commemoratingthe Anschluss.