Денят 2 юни в българската история focus-news.net - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from focus-news.net Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
“American Traitor: The Trial of Axis Sally” is the fact-based story of Mildred Gillars, an aspiring American actress who was tried in 1949 on eight counts of treason for her role as a radio propagandist for Nazi Germany during World War II.
It’s a potentially fascinating story, but this ambitious film, directed by Michael Polish (“Twin Falls Idaho,” “The Astronaut Farmer”), is hindered by a middling script by Vance Owen, Darryl Hicks and Polish (based on a book by Owen and his late father, William) and an underwhelming title turn by Meadow Williams. The star’s limited range and overreliance on glamorous, femme-fatale-like stylings distance us from the dubious, seemingly complex Gillars, an inherently hard character to embrace at best. (Real-life photos also show her to be less the bombshell than in Williams’ breathy portrayal.)
Directed by Michael Polish.
Starring Meadow Williams, Al Pacino, Thomas Kretschmann, Mitch Pileggi, Lala Kent, Swen Temmel, Jasper Polish, John D. Hickman, Sewell Whitney, Drew Taylor, Jesy McKinney, and Carsten Norgaard.
SYNOPSIS:
An American woman named Mildred Gillars broadcast Nazi propaganda during World War II. She was dubbed Axis Sally by the American GIs who simultaneously loved and hated her. The story plunges the viewer into the dark underbelly of the Third Reich’s hate-filled propaganda machine, Sally’s eventual capture, and subsequent trial for treason in Washington D.C. after the war.
Maybe it’s not fair to expect every plot synopsis to be forthright, but
היום בהיסטוריה: 80 שנה לפרעות הפרהוד בעיראק srugim.co.il - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from srugim.co.il Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.