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The Infiltrator (1995)

The Infiltrator poster
Directed by
John Mackenzie
Genre
drama film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 32m
Rating
6.5 of 10 from 7 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

An Israeli journalist goes undercover in 1990s Germany to expose a neo-Nazi group. He risks his life to document their operations and stop their plans.

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What happens

The Infiltrator is a 1995 American thriller drama film directed by John Mackenzie based on the book In Hitler's Shadow: An Israeli's Journey Inside Germany's Neo-Nazi Movement by Yaron Svoray and Nick Taylor about an Israeli freelance journalist who travels to Germany in the early 1990s and uncovers a dangerously pervasive underground Neo-Nazi faction with the intent to bring Nazism back to the forefront in Germany. It stars Oliver Platt, Arliss Howard, Tony Haygarth, Julian Glover and Michael Byrne. The film was released on June 24, 1995, on HBO. It was final film under HBO Showcase banner before it was renamed to HBO NYC Productions in 1996. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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