Literature professor in 1930s Germany, John Halder (Viggo Mortensen) explores his personal circumstances surrounding his ailing mother (Gemma Jones) in a novel advocating compassionate euthanasia. His marriage to Helen (Anastasia Hille) is crumbling when the book is unexpectedly enlisted by the new Nationalist Government in support of propaganda, Halder finds his career rising, including new membership of the Nazi Party at a senior level - as an academic who bolsters the party image. He takes up with a university student, Anne (Jodie Whittaker) who is keen to see a fresh Germany born out of the new order. But Halder's change in fortune puts him in direct conflict with his Jewish friend and psychoanalyst, Maurice Gluckstein (Jason Isaacs), with devastating effects.
Country: US
Genre: Drama
Released: 2008
Rating: M
Format: (WS)
