The story of Helmut and Karl Hoffmann. Both come of age at the start of Hitler's power in Germany. Helmut joins the SS and eventually becomes a successful flag rank officer. Karl joins the ...
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| John Shea | ... | Karl Hoffmann | |
| Bill Nighy | ... | Helmut Hoffmann | |
| Lucy Gutteridge | ... | Mitzi Templer (nightclub singer) | |
| David Warner | ... | Reinhard Heydrich | |
| Warren Clarke | ... | Becker (SS assistant to Dietrich) | |
| Michael Elphick | ... | Ernst Röhm (SA Chief) | |
| Stratford Johns | ... | Uncle Walter (bartender) | |
| Robert Urquhart | ... | Albrecht Hoffman | |
| José Ferrer | ... | Prof. Ludwig Rosenberg | |
| Carroll Baker | ... | Gerda Hoffman | |
| Tony Randall | ... | Putzi (The Comedian) | |
| John Normington | ... | Heinrich Himmler | |
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Derek Newark | ... | Theodor Eicke |
| Paul Brooke | ... | Gen. Josef Biegler, SA | |
| Colin Jeavons | ... | Adolf Hitler | |
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The story of Helmut and Karl Hoffmann. Both come of age at the start of Hitler's power in Germany. Helmut joins the SS and eventually becomes a successful flag rank officer. Karl joins the SA and experiences the darker side of Nazism after the SA is disbanded and Karl is thrown into prison and later conscripted into the German army. Brother is pitted against brother until their relationship, and the Third Reich, stands in ruins Written by Anthony Hughes <husnock31@hotmail.com>
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EnglishRelease Date:
17 February 1985 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Hitler SS: El retrato del mal See more »Company Credits
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In the fall of 1932, when the film depicts the first meeting between Helmut Hoffmann and Reinhard Heydrich, Heydrich was an SS-Standartenführer (Colonel) and had served in the SS for just over a year. Considered rather unimportant by SS leaders, Heydrich would not become well known in the SS until after moving to Berlin and taking over the Gestapo in April of 1934. See more »Goofs
In 1944, the SS officer Becker appears as a Waffen-SS Colonel wearing the same uniform from the 1930s with no additional awards or decorations. As a front line officer in the Waffen-SS, it would be highly unusual for Becker to have earned no further awards during the Second World War and even stranger to not display even the basic campaign medals for which his service surely would have warranted. See more »
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This film follows two German brothers through the history of Nazi Germany from 1931 to 1945. The film seemed pretty much to be historically accurate although there are a few points, which are arguable. What is different about this war movie is that you watch the rise to power of the Third Reich, the war, and the interaction of ordinary people from the perspective of two German brothers who take different paths in life. It's a very interesting and thought provoking movie that keeps your attention throughout. My only problem with this movie is that it touches on so many issues I wish the movie could have been longer so they could have gone into them more in depth. This movie is more about the lives and relationships of people and does not show as many fighting and battle scenes as most war movies would. If you like a lot of military action, this may not be for you although the movie does have some of this. Hitler's S.S.: Portrait in Evil is an excellent movie, under rated and for those interested in the history of World War II, is a must see movie.