The Counterfeit Traitor

The Counterfeit Traitor (DVD) (*)

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Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Spanish ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
Spain ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
140 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu

Movie filmed in 1962 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
George Seaton

Written By:
Charles Grenzbach
Alexander Klein

Actors:
William Holden ..... Eric Erickson
Lilli Palmer ..... Frau Marianne Möllendorf
Hugh Griffith ..... Collins
Carl Raddatz ..... Otto Holtz
Ernst Schröder ..... Baron Gerhard von Oldenburg
Charles Regnier ..... Wilhelm Kortner
Ingrid van Bergen ..... Hulda Windler
Helo Gutschwager ..... Hans Holtz
Wolfgang Preiss ..... Colonel Nordoff
Werner Peters ..... Bruno Ulrich
Erica Beer ..... Klara Holtz
Stefan Schnabel ..... Gestapo agent at funeral
Klaus Kinski ..... Kindler
Jochen Blume ..... Dr. Jacob Karp
Erik Schumann ..... Nazi Gunboat Officer

Synopsis:

In this tense espionage drama set in 1942, William Holden plays Eric Erickson, an American-born Swede who is put on the Allied blacklist for trading oil with the Nazis. Collins (Hugh Griffith), a British intelligence agent, offers to expunge Erickson's name from the blacklist after the war in return for information on the Nazis. Erickson agrees to the plan and proceeds to make it look as if he is pro-Nazi. This subterfuge causes him to be branded a traitor, and his wife, believing Eric to be a Nazi, walks out on him. Nevertheless, Eric continues with his deceit and makes the Germans think that he is planning to construct an oil refinery in Sweden to serve as a fuel supply for Germany. As a result he is allowed entrance to four German oil refinery, and he passes on the information to Collins. But Eric is being put under surveillance by the Nazis. They discover that Eric's lover, Marianne (Lilli Palmer) is working for the Allies. Suddenly both Marianne and Eric are arrested and thrown into Moabit Prison -- with dire consequences for both of them.

A former American citizen, now living in Sweden, is blackmailed into spying for the Allies during World War II. Reluctant at first, his relationship with a beautiful German agent causes him to realize how important his work is. When he learns that his German friends have been/are being found out, he puts his own life in danger to go back inside Nazi Germany to finish his work and try to save his friends. It's an exciting story with great characters, filmed partly in the locations where the story took place.

An American oil trader, living in Sweden during World War II, is swayed by the Allies to spy on the Germans and find out secrets regarding their oil refineries. He gets himself in some hairy situations, but manages to escape.

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