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...alternate world where Hitler has won World War II, an SS officer (Rutger Hauer) and an American reporter (Miranda Richardson) stumble on the Nazis' terrible secret, in this suspenseful, well-paced adaptation of Robert Harris' best seller...
...After the failure of the Normandy invasion, a humiliated General Dwight D. Eisenhower retreated into retirement, Winston Churchill fled to exile in Canada, and virtually all Europe came under the domination of the Nazis. An Albert Speer-designed monument to the "thousand-year Reich" now dominates Berlin, the SS has become a peacetime police force, and nobody has heard of the Holocaust. But years of cold war with the U.S. -- and a stubborn guerrilla war with the Soviets in the East -- have begun to drain the German economy. Hitler, on the eve of his 75th birthday, is preparing...
...roll past billboards touting one-world harmony and vacations in "Paris, Germania." (There's also an ad for the Beatles; those Hamburg clubs apparently survived.) The country is repressive and regimented, but the "Heil Hitlers" have grown routine and less convincing; the bureaucrats are cynical and restive. The SS and the Gestapo are at odds, like the FBI and the CIA during Watergate. Police officers (among them Peter Vaughan and Michael Kitchen in fine supporting roles) haven't lost their morals, just some of their courage...
...courageous ones are Miranda Richardson, as an American reporter sucked into the mystery, and Rutger Hauer, as an SS officer who can't let a tough case drop. Hauer's Aryan good looks have settled nicely into middle age; he has both more solidity and more sensitivity now. The scenes between him and his young son are as touching and chilling as anything on TV all year. The film's melodramatic finish is more upbeat than the novel's, but nearly every moment is gripping, intelligent, uncompromising. It took a Nazi victory, alas, to create the first movie about...
...years after a world war that didn't turn out the way our history books tell us: The Nazis won and they successfully covered up all evidence of the Holocaust. That's the setting for a fictional thriller premiering on HBO Saturday. An SS officer and an American reporter stumble upon evidence that the fatherland's version may not reflect the truth. How they uncover the whole truth follows. Comes recommended byTIME television critic Richard Zoglin.Post your opinion on theArts & Culturebulletin board...