"He was soon to become the second most powerful man in Nazi Germany."
In the early days of Nazi Germany, a powerful noble family must adjust to life under the new dictatorship regime.
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The people behind it
Dirk Bogarde
Frederick Bruckmann
Ingrid Thulin
Sophie Von Essenbeck
Helmut Griem
Aschenbach
Helmut Berger
Martin Von Essenbeck
Renaud Verley
Günther Von Essenbeck
Umberto Orsini
Herbert Thallman
Reinhard Kolldehoff
Konstantin von Essenbeck
Albrecht Schoenhals
Baron Joachim Von Essenbeck
Florinda Bolkan
Olga
Nora Ricci
Governess
What would your family reminiscences about dad sound like if he had been an early supporter of Hitler’s, a leader of the notorious SA and the Third Reich’s minister in charge of Slovakia, including its Final Solution? Executed as a war criminal in 1947, Hanns Ludin left behind a grieving widow and six young children, the youngest of whom became a filmmaker. It's a fascinating, maddening, sometimes even humorous look at what the director calls "a typical German story." (Film Forum)
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