Today’s movie is a drama with a scene that happens on April 20. Watch it tonight and enjoy.
FATHERLAND
After the failure of D-Day the US withdrew from the war. In Britain Churchill fell from power and Edward VIII was restored to the throne. Germany engages in a continuous guerilla war in Russia. Joseph P. Kenndy, Sr. is elected president in 1960. In 1964 a body is found floating in a lake near Berlin. American journalists arrive to cover Hitler’s 75th birthday. Among them is Charlie McGuire, who’s passed an envelope. The body is that of Buhler who was involved in the Jews ‘resettlement’ in the east during the war. The envelope directs McGuire to Stukhart. Inspector March talks with the person who found the body and learns the head of the Gestapo was at the site where the body was found.McGuire goes to see Stukhart, but finds him murdered. March is told the Buhler case involves ‘state security’ and has been handed over to the Gestapo. March is assigned to the Stukhart case, but when he takes McGuire to where she found the body the Gestapo shows up. March’s boss and the Gestapo head meet and March is shown Buhler’s hidden collection of looted art. The witness who found Buhler’s body dies in mysterious circumstances. Following up on the photo she was passed, McGuire and March visit Wansee and learn the names of those who attended the Wansee Conference and that they’re all dead except for Luther. March tells McGuire to get out as he now realizes this is a plot at the very highest levels. The Gestapo shoots Luther, but March who is now worried for himself, blackmails a colleague to get Luther’s file. McGuire visits Luther’s mistress and gets his file that contains evidence of the holocaust that he collected. March plans to take his son from his ex-wife and get him out. The Gestapo shows up and kills March. McGuire slips the documents to the visiting US president on his way to the celebration of Hitler’s birthday on April 20, 1964. He then aborts his meeting with Hitler. [1:12:25 to 1:42:00]
An interesting look at a world that we fortunately don’t live in. Creates a realistic look at a world where the Nazis won. Some parts are far fetched though.
An interesting look at a world that we fortunately don’t live in. Creates a realistic look at a world where the Nazis won. Some parts are far fetched though.
Hitler: A Biography by Ian Kershaw (W. W. Norton and Company, New York, 2008) at page 3 gives Hitler’s birthdate
Director - Christopher Menaul
Screenplay - Stanley Weiser
Awards - Nominated for Outstanding Individual Achievement - Special Visual Effects Emmy
Running Time - 1hour 46 minutes
Released - November 26, 1994
Starring -
Rutger Hauer as Xavier March
Miranda Richardson as Charlie Maguire
Peter Vaughn as Artur Nebe
Jean Marsh as Anna Hagen
Copyright by Ivan Walters in 2015
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