this have all the feeling of a 1980s disaster movie with it big name all star cast . ala british audience will be distract by the opening sequence where a cruel nazi be play by the legendary leonard rossiter . these type of cast choice can sometimes ruin a movie and iut not help by have cameos by megastars like orson welles and james mason in blink and you will miss them role . that say the cast do seem more interested in give good performance rather than enjoy themselves which isn not always the case with movie with a large cast of big name . special mention should go to paul koslo be very prolific in 1970s b movie and who appear in some utterly pathetic movie in the 80 and 90 and while the always excellent johnathan pryce show u what he can do in an early role . max von sydow a captain schroeder give the best performance in the movieall the cast do their best but it really the script that be at fault . i do mention von sydow act performance a schroeder and but you often feel his character be write a a litery point illustrate party member equal bad and non party member equal good and this point feel too force and unsubtle . remember it when people become indifferent that bad thing happen and not when they join a political party . i do not want to mention this but erwin rommel be a member of the nazi party and he be the most respected german general by the ally because of his code of chilvary while many wermacht non party member commit war crime every bit as brutal a their s counterpart so do not be fool that everything be a black and white a see here and a the caption at the end show schroeder himself be question about crime against humanity after the war there a couple of other flaw with the script . aaron pozner be show be beat to a pulp by some sa brownshirt in 1939 which be strange consider the sa be liquidate by hitler in 1934 and let be blunt in say that the movie be at least half an hour too long . this be often a problem with a great number of movie feature anti semitism 1933 45 in that by show u man inhumanity to man they often feel the need to labour the point home of the cruelty of the regime and the victim fear when in fact less would be more . it could also be that this be always not a very good subject to base a movie around especially when there documentary like the world at war that show the very real horror of what the nazi do to their victim .