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A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
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Why this pick
Käutner again uses a charismatic outsider and polished period design to turn authority into bitter satire, balancing humor with an increasingly pointed view of German obedience and militarism.
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Why this pick
Wicki’s restrained wartime tragedy strips away military glamour to show obedience and propaganda crushing ordinary lives, with the same sober anti-war force beneath a controlled classical style.
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Why this pick
A cultured performer’s accommodation with Nazi power becomes an elegant, psychologically tense study of ambition, compromise, and self-deception—echoing the moral pressure surrounding Harras.
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Why this pick
Though set under a different authoritarian system, this tightly controlled political drama shares the mounting menace of surveillance, coerced loyalty, and an individual caught inside a machinery of fear.
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Why this pick
Its measured suspense and morally complex portrait of a state watcher and the people under scrutiny extend The Devil’s General’s concern with conscience, complicity, and resistance within a police state.
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01 / THE STORY
Nazi Germany in 1941. The title character is ''Luftwaffe'' General Harras, a highly decorated World War I veteran contemptuous of the Third Reich and the World War II attempt to conquer Europe. Initially courted by ''Schutzstaffel'' officials, he continually mocks the Nazi leadership, which leads to friends turning into enemies and suspicion from ''SS'' and Gestapo of what may be treason.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Gen. Harry Harras
SS-Gruppenführer Schmidt-Lausitz
Ingenieur Karl Oderbruch
Dorothea 'Diddo' Geiss
Waltraut 'Pützchen' Mohrungen
Kammersängerin Olivia Geiss
Oberst Friedrich Eilers
Leutnant Hartmann
