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Oscar Schisgall (short story) and
Oliver H.P. Garrett (writer)
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Release Date:
9 August 1940 (USA) more
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Anti-Nazi tract laced with 1938 newsreel footage finds American girl (Bennett) married to a German (Lederer) gradually learning he is a Nazi... more | add synopsis
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Cast

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Joan Bennett ... Carol Hoffman
Francis Lederer ... Eric Hoffman
Lloyd Nolan ... Kenneth Delane
Anna Sten ... Frieda

Otto Kruger ... Heinrich Hoffman
Maria Ouspenskaya ... Frau Gerhardt
Ludwig Stössel ... Dr. Gerhardt
Johnny Russell ... Ricky
Lionel Royce ... Herr Deckhart
Frederick Vogeding ... Traveller
Ernst Deutsch ... Otto
Egon Brecher ... Czech
Willy Kaufman ... Train Conductor (as William Kaufman)
Frank Reicher ... Friehof
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
I Married a Nazi
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Runtime:
77 min
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1.37 : 1 more
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Very Powerful Indictment of Nazi Regime, 29 December 2005
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Author: Diosprometheus from United States

With the nation of the verge of entering World War II, 20th Century-Fox head, Darryl Zanuck set out to make a series of films to keep Americans up to date on the rapidly changing shape of Europe. The Man I Married was one of those many films. The film was about the rise of Nazism in Germany and the devastating effects it would have on the relationship between Carol Hoffman, played splendidly by Joan Bennett, and her German-American husband, Eric Hoffman, played by Francis Lederer. The story involved their family visit in 1938 to Eric's homeland, where Eric comes to embrace the Nazi regime while his wife becomes horrified by it. This is a powerful film. It was highlighted by the inter-cutting of period news footage that showed the bigotry and brutality of the Nazi regime and Hitler's ugly brand of anti-Semitism. The insight this film shows is all the more remarkable when one considers that it was made before the bombing of Pearl Harbor. It is most unfortunate that this film is not better known or on DVD.

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