In the Presence of Mine Enemies (1997) is a remake of an original TV drama scripted by Rod Serling for Playhouse 90 (1956), titled In the Presence of Mine Enemies (1960), starring Charles Laughton as Rabbi Heller, Robert Redford as Sergeant Lott, Arthur Kennedy as Paul Heller, and Oscar Homolka as Joseph Chinik, that was broadcast as the final installment of the four-year anthology series Playhouse 90 in May 1960.
The televised plot centers on a rabbi (played in the 1997 version by Armin Mueller-Stahl), and his children (Elina Löwensohn and Don McKellar). The movie also features Charles Dance as a German officer, and introducing Jason Shayne Schwartz as Israel leader of the orphan rebellion. It is the fictional story of one family --- Rabbi Adam Heller, his daughter Rachel and son, Paul --- and their physical, emotional and spiritual struggle to survive during the last week prior to the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising against the Nazis occupying Poland.