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Release Date: 2004 Cast: Caroline Carver, Danny Webb, Judy Parfitt, Kenny Doughty, Martin Landau
Categories: Movies, Period piece, Political drama The Aryan Couple is a 2004 drama directed by John Daly. It was the director's ninth film and motion picture to be released by Atlantic Film Productions. The film's story line is set in 1944, during World War II, and is about a Jewish Hungarian industrialist who, in order to ensure his large family's safe passage out of the Third Reich, is forced to hand over his business to the Nazis. The plot is loosely based on the life events of Hungarian Jewish industrialist Manfred Weiss.
Joseph Krauzenberg (Martin Landau) is a very wealthy Hungarian Jewish industrial tycoon whose fortune is mirrored... MORE
The Aryan Couple is a 2004 drama directed by John Daly. It was the director's ninth film and motion picture to be released by Atlantic Film Productions. The film's story line is set in 1944, during World War II, and is about a Jewish Hungarian industrialist who, in order to ensure his large family's safe passage out of the Third Reich, is forced to hand over his business to the Nazis. The plot is loosely based on the life events of Hungarian Jewish industrialist Manfred Weiss.
Joseph Krauzenberg (Martin Landau) is a very wealthy Hungarian Jewish industrial tycoon whose fortune is mirrored in the great palaces he owns. However, by 1944 his important businesses are needed by the Nazis and Hitler's 'Final Solution' is sweeping through Europe.
The Nazi's are greedy to accumulate wealth as easily as possible, and under the terms of the Third Reich's "Europa Plan," Krauzenberg arranges with Nazi leaders to exchange his fortune, his business holdings (textile plants, steel mills, ownership of several banks) and a collection of rare art for safe passage to Switzerland for himself, his wife Rachel (Judy Parfitt), and their family. As the night of transaction approaches, Krauzenberg visits LESS
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