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Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story
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Wikipedia article
'Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story' is a 1989 American biographical film directed by Brian Gibson and written by Abby Mann, Robin Vote and Ron Hutchinson. The film stars Ben Kingsley, Rene Soutendijk, Craig T. Nelson, Anton Lesser, Jack Shepherd and Paul Freeman. The film premiered on HBO on April 23, 1989. It won one Emmy Award and was nominated for two others.
Plot
The film is based on Wiesenthal's book of the same name that was published in 1967.
As Austrian Jews living in Ukraine at the beginning of World War II, Simon Wiesenthal and his family are captured by Nazis and sent to live in a series of prison camps, where Wiesenthal cheats death several times. When he is liberated from Mauthausen in 1945, Wiesenthal provides vital information to the Americans in the Nuremberg War Trials and dedicates his life to hunting down Nazi war criminals, even though doing so comes at a cost to his family.
Cast
*Ben Kingsley as Simon Wiesenthal
*Rene Soutendijk as Cyla
*Craig T. Nelson as Major Bill Harcourt
*Anton Lesser as Karl
*Jack Shepherd as Brodi
*Paul Freeman as Josef
*David Threlfall as Alex
*Louisa Milwood-Haigh as Paulina
*Robert Morelli as Reed
*Sndor Tri as Hauptmann
References
MUSIC
*Composer by Bill Conti
*Music by Harry Rabin
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