Hitler's daughter

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Movie
Original title Hitler's daughter
Country of production United States
original language English
German
Publishing year 1990
length 88 minutes
Rod
Director James A. Contner
script Sherman Gray
Christopher Canaan
production Richard Luke Rothschild
music Joel McNeely
camera Frank Tidy
cut M. Scott Smith
occupation

Hitler's Daughter is an American television film from 1990, the focus of which are three very ambitious middle-aged women in politics in Washington, DC , one of whom is said to be the eponymous daughter of the dead "Führer". The fictional story is based on a sensational novel by Timothy B. Benford . Kay Lenz plays the title role.

action

United States 1945. In pain, a woman gives birth to a child in a remote villa. It is a girl, Hitler's daughter, as it will later turn out. Several men who were present at the birth immediately afterwards shot the mother and the two nurses as unwelcome witnesses. Then they take the newborn and set fire to the mansion, which goes up in flames.

Washington DC 1990. The next US presidential election is coming up, and blonde news anchor Sharon Franklin reports on it as well as on the upcoming German reunification. There is great tension among US politicians, including Vice President Benedict, who would like to become the next US President, and his ambitious wife Patricia. The smart, alert Ted Scott is Benedict's closest advisor and press officer. One day he receives an ominous call from a certain Dr. Baumann, an Auschwitz survivor and tenacious Nazi hunter. He asks him to meet in an underground car park. Baumann tells him about a large-scale conspiracy in the United States that is said to be led by a woman who heads a powerful, secret Nazi organization. She was Hitler's daughter who wanted to build a “Fourth Reich” in America. Before Baumann can give Ted a briefcase, the vice president's advisor is knocked down by a fake police officer and Baumann is shot by men who join him.

When Scott wakes up again and sees the dead man, he flees with the document folder and a machine gun that was left behind. Disguised as a pizza delivery boy, he secretly breaks into his friend Jill Breyer's apartment. She's just got a visit from two FBI officers who are looking for Scott on this matter. Scott and Jill go through Baumann's files with a friend, David Holland. It tells how the Hitler baby was flown to the United States in May 1945 by those who were loyal to Hitler. Meanwhile, presidential candidate Benedict, who is having a secret affair with news anchor Sharon, begins to distance himself from his press officer Scott, who is accused of murdering Baumann. Meanwhile, Mrs. Benedict seeks a conversation with Sharon to make it clear to him that she will not let her husband's affair with Sharon dissuade her from wanting to become the First Lady of the United States. Sharon shouldn't try to steal Benedict from her, then Mrs. Benedict won't hinder the discreet continuation of her husband's affair. When there is another casualty in the affair of Hitler's alleged daughter and the upcoming presidential election campaign between Benedict and his challenger Rutledge Gordon or his wife Senator Leona Gordon, all candidates threaten to get caught in a vortex of conspiracies and contract killings. Gordon now begins to fight very hard and starts a dirt campaign against Benedict.

Meanwhile, Ted and Jill meet up with an old German friend Dr. Baumanns, Mr. Trautmann, who will also send you documents. According to this, Hitler's daughter was born near Boston between May and August 1945. Only three women are eligible for this period: Patricia Gilson, married Benedict, Mary Lipscomb, who has made herself Sharon Franklin for professional reasons, and Leona Crawford Gordon. One of them is Hitler's daughter. Outside the door the two alleged FBI people who had already visited Jill are already waiting. They turn out to be German neo-Nazis close to Hitler's daughter. They want Ted's file and they don't shy away from murder. While Trautmann is shot by one of the two, he and his friend are then killed by Jill and Ted. A little later, Jill is kidnapped. In order to save them, Ted is supposed to hand over the documents Trautmann received to his adversary. Before he can be killed, Ted's buddy David saves him with a targeted killing shot at one of the kidnappers. But before that, Ted overhears on the phone how Jill is shot by the other kidnapper.

Senator Gordon has now received intimate photos of Benedict in bed with TV presenter Franklin thanks to her digging work in the fight against opponent Benedict and is now putting Sharon under massive pressure. Meanwhile, Holland hides the Scott he is looking for in a hut in nature. He himself returns to his house, where two FBI people are waiting for him at the door. Holland enters his house and sees the murdered wife of the incumbent Vice President lying on the couch. The two men on the doorstep also turn out to be members of the conspirators and shoot David, who can no longer defend himself because he had left his pistol for Ted's protection. Holland has fallen victim to a wide range of intrigues designed solely to harm candidate Elliot Benedict. According to a news program, he is said to have blackmailed Mrs. Benedict with his knowledge of what she killed him. Then she died too. Finally, Benedict's black tills are also found on the Cayman Islands. Senator Gordon's smear campaign is a complete success. When she utters the word "Phoenix" in a fiery speech, Ted realizes that only she can be Hitler's daughter, since the entire rescue operation for Hitler's baby was carried out under the code name "Operation Phoenix". He tries to shoot the senator, but is riddled with several bullets from her bodyguard. Months later you hear the news on television that the new President Gordon, who has had a heart condition for some time, has died of a heart attack. His wife, Leona Crawford Gordon, Hitler's daughter, was sworn in as the new US President.

Production notes

Hitler's Daughter was a service production for US cable television and first aired on September 26, 1990. Television broadcasters in German-speaking countries refused this absurd production.

criticism

The Movie & Video Guide considered Hitler's Daughter to be an “involuntarily comical legend” and gave the verdict: “Below average”.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Leonard Maltin : Movie & Video Guide, 1996 edition, p. 582

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