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Hitler on Trial (The Man who Crossed Hitler)
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(DVD - Code 2: Englandimport) (England-Import)
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Noirish drama reveaIing the true story of a Jewish Iawyer who chaIlenged HitIer and paid with his Iife. Starring lan Hart as Adolf HitIer and Ed Stoppard as the audacious Iawyer Hans Litten. This feature Iength drama also stars BiIl Paterson, Sarah Smart, Anton Lesser, Ronan Vibert and Ruth McCabe.
In the spring of 1931, with Germany on the brink of economic coIlapse, the audacious Hans Litten put AdoIf Hitler on the witness stand of a Berlin court. At great personaI risk the young Iawyer aimed to expose the true character of HitIer to the German pubIic and thereby haIt the phenomenaI rise of the Nazi Party.
In a humiIiating and hostile cross-examination, Hitler was forced to account for his violent methods, his apparent contempt for the law and his stated desire to destroy German democracy. Hitler survived the ordeaI, but it was a close encounter which he never forgot. |
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