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Continuing on with Aniela’s story we find her in Alma-Ata in 1942, in Kazakhstan struggling to make her way west. Aniela goes on to say in her memoirs, “In Alma-Ata, we worked in the cotton fields for a while. We lived in a small cottage built of clay and straw. When we lay down at night, we could see the stars shining through the holes in the roof. There, I got sick with a severe case of dysentery, and I thought I wouldn’t survive. One morning, a Russian soldier came to our door and said he was collecting all the Polish people he could find to get them to one place for a transport. The place was near Tashkent. He was sorry to see me so sick. He put us on a wagon and gave us some bread and boiled water to drink.
Atkins’ first two choices do little to reduce the controversy surrounding “F-Section”. American Virginia Hall’s (Sarah Megan Thomas, who also wrote the screenplay) dreams of being a diplomat have been shattered due to her prosthetic leg, while Noor Inayat Khan (
The Wedding Guest’s Radhika Apte) was a Woman’s Auxiliary Air Force wireless operator of Indian heritage, who was born in Russia. Skeptics suggest neither will last a week, while the more hopeful give them about a 50:50 chance of returning safely. Inspired by this real-life trio who risked their lives for their adopted homeland (the Romanian Atkins’ original surname was Rosenberg), Thomas and director Lydia Dean Pilcher (2018’s