Escape from Germany

2024

Action / Drama / History / War

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Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 88% · 2 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 88% · 100 ratings
IMDb Rating 5.5/10 10 1276 1.3K

based on novel or book faith world war ii based on true story christian church of jesus christ of latter day saints

Director

T.C. Christensen Photo
T.C. Christensen

Top cast

Joseph Batzel Photo
Joseph Batzel as Brother Lutz
Whitney Palmer Photo
Whitney Palmer as Evelyn Wood
Henning Fischer Photo
Henning Fischer as Gestapo
Paul Wuthrich Photo
Paul Wuthrich as Elder Seibold
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890.54 MB
1280*720
German 2.0
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23.976 fps
1 hr 36 min
Seeds 6
1.79 GB
1920*1080
German 5.1
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 36 min
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892.66 MB
1280*720
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 37 min
Seeds 3
1.62 GB
1920*1080
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 37 min
Seeds 12

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by a_imdb-925-273920 6 / 10

Lots of Potential, Clumsy Execution

I got a big kick out of this and qualifiedly recommend it over the streams of crappy films to be found on Freevee, Netflix, and Tubi. However it has to be said that a really interesting story has been poorly served by a somewhat careless script and intermittently inspired direction. The acting is all over the place. However if you can't get past all that you may be missing something fun and even important.Mormons (LDS: Latter Day Saints) are an evangelical sect and LDS teenagers are sent abroad on a missionary year to proselytize while living with local Mormons. There have to be many amazing stories of culture shock and personal development, but this film somehow doesn't convey that, in spite of the fact that it's set in Nazi Germany in 1939.Shortly before the German invasion of Poland, the president of the European LDS organization has a premonition that war is about to start and, despite the denials of the U. S. Embassy, orders the German mission to close and repatriate its missionaries. Chaos ensues since German Mormons are being drafted, the Nazis are requisitioning transportation and food for the military, and neighboring countries begin closing their borders. Mission personnel struggle to leave behind some kind of church structure, convince at-risk parishioners to leave the country, and account for nearly thirty young missionaries who are stranded somewhere in Germany. One young missionary, Norm Seibold (Paul Wuthrich), is given some cash and sent to go find the boys and help them out. Meanwhile the mission personnel try to escape the Kafkaesque Nazi maze. Inspiration, determination, and faith struggle against bureaucracy and inhumanity in the kind of story Hollywood can't seem to tell except as a children's movie.
Reviewed by RadfordW 5 / 10

I enjoyed the story not th execution.

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