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Hitler's Script
Inspired by true events! In the waning days of WWII, a washed-up movie director in Berlin uses the production of a massive propaganda film to protect himself, then his friends, then finally Jewish prisoners, from the Nazi war machine. Think “Schindler's List” meets “The Producers.”
We follow Max Schmidt, a washed-up ex-wunderkind director, who is handed the screenplay of his career while the city of Berlin comes under siege and the Nazi's are digging in. Yet, despit all this, the UFA film studios remain in production. Max watches his coworkers plucked off and shipped to the front but is too lost in his own miseries to care. Then Hitler's propaganda script is given to him.
With nagging from his writer (a Jew, who has been passing), Max begins to realize he can keep themselves and his crew out of harm's way if he makes the picture. As the Nazi party becomes more urge about getting this film made Max shakes off his drunken stupor and becomes emboldened to widen his net of safety, keeping the production going despite lack of extras, food and even film. Max uses the Nazis' own vanity to get him what he needs, and soon the scope of his plan and the number of people to rescue expands, from his cast and crew to the prisoners of the near-by labor camp. All while the Nazi regime continue seeking new soldiers to ship to the rapidly approaching front lines. Max has to juggle a number of balls until he can finally obtain a train and take the whole production "on location" well out of Berlin and danger. And it all kinda happened
We follow Max Schmidt, a washed-up ex-wunderkind director, who is handed the screenplay of his career while the city of Berlin comes under siege and the Nazi's are digging in. Yet, despit all this, the UFA film studios remain in production. Max watches his coworkers plucked off and shipped to the front but is too lost in his own miseries to care. Then Hitler's propaganda script is given to him.
With nagging from his writer (a Jew, who has been passing), Max begins to realize he can keep themselves and his crew out of harm's way if he makes the picture. As the Nazi party becomes more urge about getting this film made Max shakes off his drunken stupor and becomes emboldened to widen his net of safety, keeping the production going despite lack of extras, food and even film. Max uses the Nazis' own vanity to get him what he needs, and soon the scope of his plan and the number of people to rescue expands, from his cast and crew to the prisoners of the near-by labor camp. All while the Nazi regime continue seeking new soldiers to ship to the rapidly approaching front lines. Max has to juggle a number of balls until he can finally obtain a train and take the whole production "on location" well out of Berlin and danger. And it all kinda happened
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