Vaterland (TV Movie 1994)

Vaterland: Directed by Christopher Menaul. With Rutger Hauer, Miranda Richardson, Peter Vaughan, Michael Kitchen. In April 1964, more than twenty years after the Nazis won World War II, S.S. officer Xavier March (Rutger Hauer) uncovers a plot to eliminate the attendees of the Wannsee Conference so that Germany can establish better relations with the U.S.

“Berlin, 1964, Nazi Germany.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eu0026quot;Fatherlandu0026quot; is one of Ruger Haueru0026#39;s better recent movies. It takes a look at what would have happened if Nazi Germany had survived, even if the US had never gone to war with Germany.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe movie shows the grandiose architectural empire that Hitler had planned to make out of Berlin, as it would look on his 75th birthday. The special effects are notable more for their subtlety than dramatics, many of the fictional monuments look perfectly natural. The appearance of Nazi era clothes and uniforms against a sixties era eastern europe looks both plausible and surreal.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe movie itself focuses on a patriotic cop (Hauer) and an american journalist who look into a series of murders that involved the u0026quot;greatest secretu0026quot; of the Reich.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eu0026quot;Fatherlandu0026quot; is a better than average drama and at the same a very disturbing look at how history could have turned out differently.”