Listonixio Fresh and Exciting

ShangLuda Admirable film.

Intcatinfo A Masterpiece!

Glimmerubro It is not deep, but it is fun to watch. It does have a bit more of an edge to it than other similar films.

dlwymond I found this film to be one of the most captivating and well-kept movie secrets of all time. If it is the first time you see it, you might be surprised that it was boldly made before WWII was over. The film stretches some emotions like taffy, while it is not overly-graphic, and only moderately intense. It instills in you with what seems to be a fair overview of the Nazi regime, while entertaining you with a plot of escape & a love story. To be expected, the conversation in it is surreal, typical of the film's era, but the only drawback for me is that Bonita Granville (age 19 when the film was made), who plays Anna Miller, passed in 1988 and actually stopped making major films after 1950. I did not realize what a beautiful girl she was until I discovered her in this picture a few weeks ago. A film for all generations (I was born 20 years after WWII).

dgz78 Okay, I saw this title coming up on TCM and I had to watch it. What the heck could a movie called Hitler's Children be like? Well, it's your typical WWII love story. Nazi meets girl; Nazi loses girl; Nazi gets girl and they both die.I understand this was propaganda for the American audiences during the war but really. To call the acting wooden is an insult to all trees and Alec Baldwin. Even Otto Kruger and Tim Holt seem to sink under the weight of the story.Edward Dmytryk directed one of my favorite movies, The Caine Mutiny, as well as a great Chandler story, Murder My Sweet. But you had to be a member of the Hollywood Ten to think this movie should ever be released. Oh wait, Dmytryk was a member of the Hollywood Ten.I give this movie a two because it tells a little bit of the horrors of the Nazis though obviously they didn't know everything that the Nazis were doing. But surely by 1943 people knew the Germans were doing worse things then sterilizing women.There's just no suspense in this movie. And it's just not that you know how the movie will end after watching the first five minutes. Maybe the bad acting kept reminding me its only a movie but I think a typical Hogan's Heroes episode had more tension.Didn't Hollywood have enough talent to make a better movie than this? At least Leni Riefenstahl made Triumph of the Will. Now that was a propaganda. Maybe she was a Nazi and maybe she wasn't. But where was Hollywood's Leni Riefenstahl?

buffyandwill I was flipping through the channels last night and once I read that the title was "Hitler's Children" I had to watch it. I missed the first bit of it and the ending but what I did see I loved. ************* POSSIBLE SPOILERS AHEAD********There was a love triangle , illegitimate children, and to throw Nazis in there just made it all the more better. The works for a good movie. Plus I found it somewhat funny that almost every sentence started and ended with "Hail Hitler". Although I did find it pretty funny, it was very dramatic, and I now completely get what my history teacher was talking about. Great movie to watch if you just took world history.

Ddey65 Call me too cynical, but it just seems incredibly naive to present the idea that the love of a young American girl by a Hitler Youth can defeat Nazi propaganda.Oh, well. Whatever worked in 1942. Of course, the REAL horrors of Nazi Germany were far worse than we thought when this and similar movies were made.