John Shea
Karl Hoffmann
Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil (1985)
"Brother is pitted against brother under the shadow of the Third Reich."
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Overview
The two-part TV movie Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil crystallizes that evil by concentrating on two Berlin brothers. In 1931, Helmut Hoffman a brilliant student and self-styled opportunist, joins Hitler's SS. At the same time, his younger brother Karl, a top athlete and idealist, becomes a chauffeur for the "S.A.".
Jim Goddard
Director
Lukas Heller
Writer
Top Billed Cast
Bill Nighy
Helmut Hoffmann
Lucy Gutteridge
Mitzi Templer
David Warner
Reinhard Heydrich
Warren Clarke
Becker (SS assistant to Dietrich)
Michael Elphick
Ernst Röhm
Stratford Johns
Uncle Walter
Robert Urquhart
Albrecht Hoffman
José Ferrer
Prof. Ludwig Rosenberg
Carroll Baker
Gerda Hoffman
Tony Randall
Putzi (The Comedian)
John Normington
Heinrich Himmler
Derek Newark
Theodor Eicke
Paul Brooke
Gen. Josef Biegler, SA
Colin Jeavons
Adolf Hitler
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