Watch on the Rhine (1943)

Directed by

Herman Shumlin, Hal Mohr

Genre

drama film, spy film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 54m

Rated

12

Rating

6.9 of 10 from 54 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A German anti-fascist and his family live in Washington D.C. during World War II. He tries to keep his past as a resistance fighter a secret while protecting his family from a Romanian count who is a Nazi sympathizer.

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What happens

Watch on the Rhine is a 1943 American drama film directed by Herman Shumlin and starring Bette Davis and Paul Lukas. The screenplay by Dashiell Hammett is based on the 1941 play Watch on the Rhine by Lillian Hellman. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture and Paul Lukas won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance as Kurt Muller, a German-born anti-fascist in this film. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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