Fatherland

Fatherland

1994 · 106 min · ★ 6.3 · Drama, Thriller, Action, TV Movie, War

Fictional account of what might have happened if Hitler had won the war. It is now the 1960s and Germany's war crimes have so far been kept a secret. Hitler wants to talk peace with the US president. An American journalist and a German homicide cop stumble into a plot to destroy all evidence of the genocide.

Directed by Christopher Menaul · Written by Stanley Weiser

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