Two films for you this week, one of which is surprisingly good and one of which does not surprise in the least. Shall we be unsurprised first?
OK, Another Mother’s Son, set during the second world war on Nazi-occupied Jersey, is based on the true story of Louisa Gould, who took in an escaped Russian PoW for the course of the war.

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