Hitler's SS: Portrait of Evil

Hitler's SS: Portrait of Evil

Director: Jim Goddard Cast: John Shea
John Shea
, Bill Nighy
Bill Nighy
, Tony Randall
Tony Randall
, Lucy Gutteridge
Lucy Gutteridge
Jim Goddard
Hitler's SS: Portrait of Evil

Hitler's SS: Portrait of Evil

Director: Jim Goddard Cast: John Shea
John Shea
, Bill Nighy
Bill Nighy
, Tony Randall
Tony Randall
, Lucy Gutteridge
Lucy Gutteridge
Jim Goddard

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Overview

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.

Product Details

Release Date: 07/29/2008
UPC: 0089218560698
Original Release: 1985
Source: GOTHAM DIST. CORP..***
Region Code: A
Sound: [Dolby Digital Stereo]
Language: English
Time: 2:23:00
Sales rank: 55,019

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits
John Shea Karl Hoffmann
Bill Nighy Helmut Hoffmann
Tony Randall Putzi (the comedian)
Lucy Gutteridge Mitzi Templer (nightclub singer)
David Warner Reinhard Heydrich
Jose Ferrer Prof. Ludwig Rosenberg
Carroll Baker Gerda Hoffman
Robert Urquhart Albrecht Hoffman
Colin Jeavons Actor
Warren Clarke Actor
Michael Elphick Actor
Stratford Johns Actor
John Normington Actor
Derek Newark Actor
Paul Brooke Actor
John Dicks Actor
Ivor Roberts Actor
Prentis Hancock Actor
Struan Rodger Actor
Robert MacLeod Actor
John Woodnut Actor
Walter Sparrow Actor
Bernard Lloyd Actor
Peter Craze Actor
Roger McGough Composer
Richard Hartley Composer

Technical Credits
Jim Goddard Director
Edgar J. Scherick Producer,Executive Producer
Aida Young Producer
Lukas Heller Screenwriter
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