Ok, so I've always been a little underwhelmed by Jacqueline Bisset and it is quite hard to imagine Peter "Grouty" Vaughan as a Nazi major, but once I'd got my head around that this is actually quite a decent telling of a supposedly true story from WWII. The Countess "Nina" (JB) is increasingly concerned by the rise of the Third Reich and it's arbitrary and brutal treatment of the Jewish population, and so under the guise of her status as a student at vet school, she enrols with the resistance and starts to help the persecuted escape. This is when she encounters "Fritz" (Jürgen Prochnow) whom s…
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