An English girl marries a German lawyer in the 1930s and they try to live as normal a life as they can in Hitler's Germany. When Allied bombs start falling on German cities, Christabel takes her two young sons to a village in the mountains. Then she learns that her husband and some of his friends have been arrested for plotting to assassinate Hitler. She travels to the prison where he is held, wondering if telling the commandant that she knows Winston Churchill will help her husband or seal h ...[Read Story ]
Frances Fisher plays Julianne Moore's mother in the movie. She is only eight years older than Moore in real life. Director Cameo: [Peter Howitt] at the start of the film as the husband (Brosnan's client) in the divorce case. A popular Dublin newspaper printed a full-page article on how insulting this film was towards Irish people, depicting them as a stereotype, on the day of its release in Ireland. Director Michael Caton-Jones pulled out at the last minute due to creative differences. ...[Read Story ]