If you haven’t grown tired of the latest insurgence of Holocaust-themed cinema (and shows as well) yet, then you must have watched Escape from Germany. The latest entry in the genre is about a group of missionaries making an escape from the country right before the start of the Second World War. It was supposed to be gripping and nail-biting, but the end result is the opposite of that. There’s zero cinematic flair, and the whole thing looks amateurish. What’s even worse is Escape from Germany doesn’t even feel like a film; rather, it comes off as an hour and a half-long commercial for the Mormon church, that too a bad one. It’s hard to take it seriously when they’re saying things like “church out” instead of “get out” in a sentence. Since this is not a review, I wouldn’t be going into...
- 9/6/2024
- by Rohitavra Majumdar
- Film Fugitives
Tc Christensen’s latest film Escape from Germany takes its audience back to a little-known time of world history. Set in 1939 as Hitler’s Germany expands its oppressive reach, 79 young Mormon missionaries face an urgent call to action. As summer draws to a close, Heber J. Grant, prophet of the Latter-Day Saints, receives a prophetic message: war is imminent and the missionaries must flee.
Night is falling as word spreads through mission headquarters across Germany. Elders scramble to gather scattered brethren from remote outposts—a daunting prospect without modern means. One man rises to the challenging task, Elder Siebold. Tasked with tracking down two dozen missionaries scattered throughout the vast country, he embarks alone on a stealthy search. The Nazi occupation tightens its grip by the hour, and dangers lurk around every corner for those without papers.
Christensen deftly establishes the ominous historical backdrop against which Siebold and other faithful...
Night is falling as word spreads through mission headquarters across Germany. Elders scramble to gather scattered brethren from remote outposts—a daunting prospect without modern means. One man rises to the challenging task, Elder Siebold. Tasked with tracking down two dozen missionaries scattered throughout the vast country, he embarks alone on a stealthy search. The Nazi occupation tightens its grip by the hour, and dangers lurk around every corner for those without papers.
Christensen deftly establishes the ominous historical backdrop against which Siebold and other faithful...
- 8/3/2024
- by Shahrbanoo Golmohamadi
- Gazettely
"Tell our missionaries to get out!" Samuel Goldwyn Films has revealed the official trailer for a new WWII historical drama titled Escape from Germany, made by a Mormon filmmaker named T.C. Christensen. It's set for a VOD release in August – though it doesn't seem worth the rental price. Escape from Germany is the story of the Lds West German Mission evacuation of 1939 which occurred only days before the Nazi invasion of Poland. Hitler's army was closing borders, and 85 (although the trailer says it's 79?) American missionaries were in Germany serving their church. The escape of these missionaries from Nazi Germany is one of the most dramatic events to occur in modern church history. The last one got out and into Denmark on August 31. The next day Germany invaded Poland and the war began. Starring Paul Wuthrich, David Shawn McConnell, Landon Henneman, Sebastian Barr, Henning Fischer, Kevin Kirshemann, Whitney Palmer, and Brad Witbeck.
- 7/3/2024
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
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