I read the Robert Harris' novel, which this Tv movie is very close to. In the line of what the American political thrillers of the seventies brought to us: for instance PARALLAX VIEW. Instead of Kennedy assassination, the topic is set in a Germany that won WW2. And the lead investigator character is a SS officer !!! He has the same role that Yves Montand had in I COMME ICARE, or Warren Beatty in PARALLAX VIEW. That's the first time in the movie history that a SS is shown as a "good" guy, a hero. After all, for an uchronia, it is so believable, so terrific. In France, you had a politician whose death was very similar to the murder case that begins this film: Robert Boulin. But that's another story.
Review of Fatherland
