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Christabel
starring: Elizabeth Hurley, Stephen Dillane, Geoffrey Palmer, Ann Bell, Nigel Le Vaillant
directed by: Adrian Shergold

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Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786301442794
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC
ISBN: 6301442792
Label: 20th Century Fox
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: 20th Century Fox
Release Date: December 29, 1993
Running Time: 149 minutes
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Sales Rank: 1326

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- Amazing and Important History.
I am a direct decendant of Peter and Christabel Bielenberg and I was absolutely facinated when I watched this video. I beleive it was a almost perfect portrail of Christabel and her experiances as a German in the war. I also think that if you had not read the book "I once was a German" by Christabel Bielenberg you would have been lost several times in the film. But overall it was a great experiance.

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- A British Woman within the Third Reich
The story of Christabel Bielenberg -- a British woman, married to a German official, who lived in Germany throughout the Second World War -- offers a unique, factual perspective on the rise of fascism within Germany and its daily attrition of human values and dignity. The story is compelling -- whatever minor flaws may have arisen in transfering it to the screen are relatively trivial. Both in Bielenberg's book ("The Past Is Myself") and in the video, the eerie, unexpected arrival of a Latvian SS officer in Bielenberg's train compartment while she is asleep and his complulsion to recount his own ghastly history is chilling and memorable, and but one of a series of vignettes from within that give greater insight into the period. The book and video were as valuable in developing an understanding ... Read More

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- Potter potty
Being unfamiliar with the autobiography of Christabel Bielenberg, it's hard to know whether to blame her or the adaptation by Dennis Potter for this BBC miniseries. However equally responsible is director Adrian Shergold ... Although Potter has otherwise stretched the boundaries of naturalism, here he presents material on the level of a Harlequin Barbara Cartland, but without even her passion, and his repeated use of Christabel's name wears very thin. Married to a German during WW2, Christabel represents the gallantry of England and her moral superiority over the Germans. Whilst it is known that there were some Germans who did not support Hitler's Nazis, Potter uses this to show that the Germans who did were imbeciles, making the defeat of the Nazis inevitable. This glaringly ignores the fact that ... Read More

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