Silent Night

Silent Night is a fact-based 2002 television film set on Christmas Eve in 1944, during World War II. A German mother , who had already lost her eldest son in the Battle of Stalingrad and whose husband is a cook serving in the German army, and her son are seeking refuge in a cabin near the front lines in the Ardennes forests region of western Europe. They are invaded by three American soldiers and then soon after three German soldiers, and after much resistance the mother manages to convince the enemy soldiers to put aside their differences for one night and share a Christmas dinner. The... Germans were planning to kill the Americans, but eventually they and the American soldiers shared their rations to make a proper Christmas dinner. This included homemade cookies and other goodies. Throughout the night the Americans and Germans befriend each other despite the fact that they will eventually have to return to the war. The next morning an American MP soldier comes and is surprised by what he sees. As he learns of what has happened he turns his rifle on the American soldiers and begins talking with the Germans.
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