Genre:
Romance
Release Date: 07/29/2008
Dubbed: English
Sound: DD2
Run Time: 143 Minutes
Distributor/Studio: Alpha Video
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
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