None Shall Escape (Lebensraum)

Watched 2021 (446 items)
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The Movies of 1944 (204 items)
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OK with the early judgment of the nazis in one single biography. More moral than politic. Sharp in its conclusions and even tender in some approaches to the women involved.

Even though the film was made during the World War II, the setting is a post-war Nuremberg-style war crimes trial. Alexander Knox plays Wilhelm Grimm, a Nazi officer who is on trial, and the story unfolds through the eyes of several witnesses, including a Catholic priest, Father Warecki (Henry Travers), Grimm's brother Karl (Erik Rolf) and Marja Pacierkowski (Marsha Hunt), a woman to whom he was once engaged.