Christabel

I loved this movie. Watched on Amazon Prime...

Unfortunately, there is no authorized version of this important docudrama available. The BBC has not seen fit to provide a high quality DVD to the general public.

This is a 1988 BBC TV Movie, and a rendition of 1930's Germany, the like of which I have never seen before.Although brilliantly written by Dennis Potter our own late mother, (although not involved in The German resistance or with the Holocaust), could have written this and better based on her own incredible day to day wartime experiences.

The book on which the drama is based goes against the standard stereotypes and explains how ordinary people could go along with Hitler in the early years. The woman says: "On January 30thm 1933, Hitler became Germany's Chancellor.

While many people may be drawn to this film because of Elizabeth Hurley, her performance may at first disappoint; her acting is shaky throughout most of the film, but near the end her character seems to truly come into bloom, and the last third of the film is rather enjoyable, with Hurley finally showing us that she is more than just a pretty face. If you're not moved, then maybe many things won't move you.

Christabel's true story needed to be told. Not just because she was the wife of a man involved in the plot to assassinate Hitler, but because it shows the all-too-ignored German life during wartime.