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Audiences rate it 14 points higher than critics do.
Synopsis
Fictional account of what might have happened if Hitler had won the war. It is now the 1960s and Germany's war crimes have so far been kept a secret. Hitler wants to talk peace with the US president. An American journalist and a German homicide cop stumble into a plot to destroy all evidence of the genocide.
Ratings
IMDb6.4/10
Rotten Tomatoes50%
Audiences rate it 14 points higher than critics do.
142 audience votes
Key crew
- Christopher MenaulDirector
- Stanley WeiserScreenplay
- Ron HutchinsonScreenplay
- Gary ChangOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Rutger HauerSS-Sturmbannführer Xavier March
- Miranda RichardsonCharlie Maguire
- Peter VaughanSS-Oberstgruppenführer Artur Nebe
- Michael KitchenSS-Untersturmführer Max Jäger
- Jean MarshAnna von Hagen
- John ShrapnelGeneral Globus
- John WoodvineLuther
- Bob MasonCoroner Eisler
- Clive RussellKrebs
- Neil DudgeonSex Crimes Cop
- Rupert Penry-JonesJost
- David RyallAdministrator Kruger
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Themes
journalistnaziss (nazi schutzstaffel)holocaust (shoah)alternate historymurder hunt