Silent Night in Algona
"They came as the enemy, many left as friends."
A depiction of a small Iowa town hosting a prisoner of war camp during World War II in 1944.
"They came as the enemy, many left as friends."
A depiction of a small Iowa town hosting a prisoner of war camp during World War II in 1944.
Curran Jacobs
Rudy Tietz
Cassie Dean
Clara Tietz
Samuel Peterson
Donny Tietz
Bodhi Rader
Eduard Kaib
DJ Perry
Col. Lodell
Shane Hagedorn
Provost Marshall Klein
Melissa Anschutz
Harriet Heckler
Carlucci Weyant
Lt. Grant
Carl Gilliard
William Hobbs
A depiction of a small Iowa town hosting a prisoner of war camp during World War II in 1944.
**_Drama about a POW camp in northern Iowa during WW2_** In 1944, Camp Algona is established, which would end up housing around 10,000 Axis prisoners. Work programs for inmates supplemented the depleted workforce in America, such as the local Hormel factory, and included harvesting crops, such as at the Tietz farm. Meanwhile the Germans are working on a secret project that is unveiled to the populace at Christmas. “Silent Night in Algona” (2022) works as a lowkey drama about one of over 400 such camps in America. Don’t expect explosions or over-the-top thrills. The ‘action’ is the believable tensions of the time period and situation. Everything wraps up for an effective close and relevant details, but you have to be in the mood for a period drama to appreciate it. Brunette beauty Christina Loeffler is notable in a small role on the feminine front. It runs 2 hours, 18 minutes, and was shot in north-central Iowa in Whittemore, which is just west of Algona, and Forest City, which is northeast of there. Algona is 135 miles north of Des Moines, 175 miles southwest of Minneapolis and 275 miles northwest of Davenport. GRADE: B/B-
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