Christabel [videorecording].

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Hurley, Elizabeth

Delane, Stephen

Palmer, Geoffrey

Bell, Ann

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Historical.

Action/Adventure.

Drama.

Local Subjects:

Historical.

Action/Adventure.

Drama.

Genre:

Drama.

Physical Description:

1 videodisc (ca. 149 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Place of Publication:

[United States] : A&E Television Networks, Llc., 2022.

Language Note:

English audio.

System Details:

DVD.

Summary:

An English girl marries a German lawyer in the 1930s and they try to live as normal a life as they can in Hitler's Germany. When Allied bombs start falling on German cities, Christabel takes her two young sons to a village in the mountains. Then she learns that her husband and some of his friends have been arrested for plotting to assassinate Hitler. She travels to the prison where he is held, wondering if telling the commandant that she knows Winston Churchill will help her husband or seal his fate. This film is based on Christabel Bielenberg's historical memoir, "The Past Is Myself," looking back on the years 1932-45, which was the source for this depiction of life in Germany during Hitler's rise. Dennis Potter chose to dramatize their story because, "One, it's a celebration of married love, and, two, it's the perfect answer to the idea of collective guilt. They were confronted with this raving maniac and yet managed to emerge without doing anything degrading."

Participant:

Elizabeth Hurley, Stephen Delane, Geoffrey Palmer, Ann Bell.

Credits:

Director, Adrian Shergold.

Notes:

05/24/2022

Publisher Number:

885444301537

15160379