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Christabel (1988) (TV)
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16 November 1988 (UK)
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An English girl marries a German lawyer in the 1930s and they try to live as normal a life as they can in Hitler's Germany...
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(Cast overview, first billed only) | Elizabeth Hurley | ... | Christabel Bielenberg |
 | Stephen Dillane | ... | Peter Bielenberg |
| Geoffrey Palmer | ... | Mr. Burton |
| Ann Bell | ... | Mrs. Burton |
| Nigel Le Vaillant | ... | Adam Von Trott Zu Solz |
 | Suzan Crowley | ... | Lexi |
| Jim Carter | ... | Bausch |
| Pat Heywood | ... | Frau Muckle |
| Hugh Simon | ... | Botho |
| Sam Kelly | ... | Karl Langbehn |
| David Lyon | ... | Kreuze |
| John Burgess | ... | Neisse |
| Renny Lister | ... | Aunt Ulla |
| Nicola Wright | ... | Clarita |
| John Boswall | ... | Alois |
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USA:149 min | UK:60 min (4 episodes)
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Christabel's true story needed to be told. Not just because she was the wife of a man involved in the plot to assassinate Hitler, but because it shows the all-too-ignored German life during wartime. It shows the humanity and the doubts felt by many Germans, keeping away from the stereotypes so prevalent in many films about the era. The actors playing Germans speak in broad English accents, and this is a brilliant device, because they make the Germans identifiable characters. There is one scene when an older German man, in Nazi uniform, teaches Christabel's children how to salute Hitler. Because the German does it in English tones, you may be even more chilled. Elizabeth Hurley looks little like her current model self. Her acting attains everything the writers and director would've wanted, but without a brilliance. It was, it must be remembered, one of her first features. Overall, this is an important piece of work for the reality it gives. One of Hurley's best scenes is when she's sitting with an old German woman in the street just as the bombs start to fall. They cry together, and you may want to cry with them. This is an autobiographical film about good people put into extraordinary circumstances, how they thought, how they argued, and the choices they made. All through the piece you wonder whether you'd do the same things. 8/10