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Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil

Actor(s): John Shea, Bill Nighy, Tony Randall, José Ferrer, Lucy Gutteridge
Director(s): Jim Goddard
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Details

MPAA Rating: NR
Movie Release: 1985
DVD Release: 04/02/2002
Format: DVD - Pan and Scan
Edition: Restored/Remastered,Special Collection
Audio Tracks: English
SwapaDVD Credits: 1
Number of Discs: 1
Run Time: 2 hrs 15 mins
Studio: Ideal
Members Wishing: 3
Genres: Drama, War, Romance, War Drama
See Also: Hitler's SS: Portrait of Evil

Synopsis

The two-part TV movie Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil crystallizes that evil by concentrating on two Berlin brothers. In 1931, Helmut Hoffman (Bill Nighy) a brilliant student and self-styled opportunist, joins Hitler's SS. At the same time, his younger brother Karl (John Shea), a top athlete and idealist, becomes a chauffeur for the "S.A." (storm troopers). When the SS topples the SA from power, Karl ends up in Dachau. He is rescued through his brother's influence--if you can describe sending Karl to fight on the Russian Front a "rescue." As he watches the Third Reich deteriorate, Helmut at long last suffers pangs of conscience. As if the story of the rise of Nazism needed any further melodrama, Hitler's SS shoehorns in a romantic triangle involving Karl, Helmut, and beautiful nightclub-singer Lucy Gutteridge. The all-star supporting cast of Hitler's SS includes Carroll Baker as the Hoffman brothers' anguished mother; Tony Randall as an androgynous entertainer named Putzi (shades of Cabaret's Joel Grey); and David Warner, repeating his Holocaust role as SS head man Heydrich. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide