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April 1945. In a dramatic operation the SS transports 139 special prisoners, and kin of the prisoners, into the Alps. The plan: to use the prisoners as bargaining chips in possible negotiations with the Allies. During the journey a number of prisoners plan their escape and experience six days between liberty and death, their fates in the hands of ruthless and increasingly nervous criminals. But the hostages band together and turn the tables with a clever ploy: they call in the Wehrmacht to aid them…
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Director
Status
Released
Original Language
DE

1945 - The war is lost. But the fanatical Waffen SS is still fighting and prolongs the madness of killing. An officer is given the task of taking Adolf Hitler's uniform to the tailor for repair. But it gets lost in the turmoil of war. Today in the present, a Mafia boss gets the crazy idea to clone the "Führer" with the help of the uniform. The madness takes its course...


Jimmy James
A documentary looking at Operation Anthropoid during World War II.