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The Mortal Storm
Drama
The Roth family leads a quiet life in a small village in the German Alps during the early 1930s. After the Nazis come to power, the family is divided and Martin Breitner, a family friend, is caught up in the turmoil.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers drawn to morally serious historical dramas about ordinary families confronting ideological extremism and the collapse of social trust.
- Tone
- bleak, tense, melancholic
- Payoff
- heartbreak, reflection
- Pacing
- steady
- Intensity
- intense
- Structure
- linear
- Themes
- fascism, family division, moral courage, political conformity, persecution
- Setting
- early twentieth-century political upheaval, secluded Alpine village and surrounding countryside