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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Cast:
John Shea - Karl
Bill Nighy - Helmut
Tony Randall -
José Ferrer -
Lucy Gutteridge -
David Warner -

Production:
Jim Goddard - Director
Edgar J. Scherick Aida Young - Producer
Richard Hartley Roger McGough - Composer
John Shirley - Editor
Lukas Heller - Screen Writer
Ernest Vincze - Cinematographer
Elizabeth Waller - Costume Designer
Edgar J. Scherick - Executive Producer
Eileen Diss - Production Designer
Michael Porter - Production Designer
Eva Darlow - Choreography

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