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In History’s Lost and Found, One Soldier’s Watch, BY AUSTIN CONSIDINE, NEW YORK TIMES, JUNE 22, 2011
The Golden Hour on set with my Uncle Charles (age 96). link to interview: https://www.breckfilmfest.org/filmmakers-of-the-month/louisewoehrle
Bombardier Reenactment on B-17 with VFX. https://lakeminnetonkamag.com/local-filmmaker-documents-uncles-incredible-wwii-story-stalag-luft-iii
The 42nd Denver Film Festival - November 10, 2019
October 25, 2019
Award-Winning Documentary on St. Paul war Prisoner to be Screened on Veteran’s Day
And the winners are …Port Townsend Film Festival wraps up with awards
Tuesday, September 24, 2019 2:06pm
The Audience Choice Awards, tallies of viewers’ votes across the three-day, 100-movie festival, were announced Monday morning: “The Silent Revolution,” the true story of West Berlin high school students’ solidarity, and “School of Life,”a lush French movie about a rural couple who adopt a young boy, tied for best narrative feature.
As for best documentary, it was “Stalag Luft III” that won moviegoers’ hearts.
This was director Louise Woehrle’s film about her uncle Charles Woehrle, a bombardier shot down during World War II, captured by the Nazis and imprisoned in a huge camp in Poland. He made it home to Minnesota — lived to be 98 — and recounted the astonishing ways he stayed alive in the camp; much of this is illustrated with re-enactments, historical photographs and animation.
“It’s not a tribute film,” Louise told the audience in the Peter Simpson Free Cinema, aka the Marina Room on Hudson Street, after the early Sunday morning showing.
Instead, “Stalag Luft III” was about the way the prisoners helped one another — while her uncle didn’t sink into self-pity.
“From the get-go, it wasn’t about him … the way he coped was: ‘How can I look out for the other guy?’ ”
Honored to be mentioned as a film to see at Heartland International Film Festival - 4,000 feature film submissions this year and Stalag is one of 200 films they chose to screen. Stalag will screen at the 2 different AMC Theaters on November 14 and 16.
Out of close to 400 films we were one of 23 films from all categories selected BEST OF FEST!
To listen to the Interview click here: http://ampers.org/?s=Louise+Woehrle
Orlando Film Festival Facebook post.
To listen to radio interview click here: https://listen.sdpb.org/post/cinema-falls-presents-stalag-luft-iii-one-man-s-story
Click here for the Star Tribune article by History Columnist Curt Brown: http://www.startribune.com/watch-brought-timely-hope-to-minnesota-pow-during-wwii/508213612/
The Minnesota Humanities Center invited me to write a blog that relates a personal story to my recent documentary Stalag Luft III - One Man’s Story about my Uncle Charles Woehrle. Keeping it to 500 words is tough!
Link to blog:https://mnhum.org/blog/the-next-best-thing/
Excerpt by Jason Heaton
Jason describes a story within the film that lasts 5 1/2 minutes within the 105 minutes of the full documentary. The watch story is highly impactful offering tremendous hope and joy to my Uncle and his fellow PoWs in Stalag Luft III.
"My favorite watch stories to read and write are not about the money fetched at auction, some new limited edition, or which celebrity has signed on to wear a certain brand. They are those about the exploits of people wearing watches, going to the Moon, sailing around the globe, or simply living a full life. Looking back though, there is one story of a wristwatch and its owner that stands above the rest: that of World War II veteran and prisoner of war, Charles Woehrle, and his Patek Philippe. It is a story of great courage, humility, and generosity, and one that is the subject of the new documentary film Stalag Luft III: One Man’s Story."
Interview with Filxchatter Film Blog writer Ruth Maramis: https://flixchatter.net/2019/04/08/mspiff-2019-spotlight-stalag-luft-iii-one-mans-story-interview-w-filmmaker-louise-woehrle/
A WWII VET AND HIS PATEK PHILIPPE WATCH FROM 1944, BY OREN HARTOV, GEAR PATROL, NOVEMBER 1, 2018
Charles Woehrle Shows Us His New Patek Philippe Watch, BY JASON HEATON, HODINKEE, JULY 11, 2011