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Best portrait of a german soldier on a movie

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Post by Chuck_jm » 30 Aug 2004, 18:19

Hi folks, i was thinking which actor has portrayed the best a nazi general, soldier or whatever. Immediatley Peter O'Toole came to my mind.

Who is your pick???
Maybe including pics will help.

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P.S. Maybe the worst will be suitable too.
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Post by melbar16 » 30 Aug 2004, 23:22

What film is this taken from? I know he played a SS General in Night of the Generals but this is a different film is it not?

I have to say though, one of my favourite classical looking German solider actors is Thomas Kretschmann from Stalingrad, U-571, The Pianist and now Der Untergang! He looks perfect in every respect. Sorry no pics at the moment.

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Post by Chuck_jm » 30 Aug 2004, 23:29

Actually that pic is from Night of the Generals.

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Post by bryson109 » 30 Aug 2004, 23:30

I would like to know the name of that movie two.

My fav is the Cpt. in Bas Boot (sorry no name I'm not that great with people's names).
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Post by melbar16 » 30 Aug 2004, 23:57

Jurgen Prochnow plays the captain in Das Boot.
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Post by Mehmet Fatih » 30 Aug 2004, 23:59

well,the best nazi officer portrait i have ever seen in movies is Untersturmführer Amon Goeth(Commandant of Plaszow Labor Camp) performed by Ralph Fiennes in Schindler's List.
the worst one is erwin rommel(professional soldier,not a nazi officer!) performed by Karl Michael Vogler in Patton.
this guy was almost 20 years younger than rommel was in 1940s.
the most interesting german officer was colonel Werner Visser performed by Marcel Iures in Hart's War.A german colonel graduated from Yale,listening to banned jazz music in his office.(He said that they were the only copies in whole germany.but i heard that eva braun was listening to jazz music in berghoff.)
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Post by Chuck_jm » 31 Aug 2004, 00:13

Yes, Ralph Fiennes did great as Amon Goeth, i totally agree.

The part when a jewish architect girl explained him the whole building or whatever they were doing had to be done again and he refused, shot her and then did what she said was great.

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Post by Beppo Schmidt » 31 Aug 2004, 02:36

well,the best nazi officer portrait i have ever seen in movies is Untersturmführer Amon Goeth(Commandant of Plaszow Labor Camp) performed by Ralph Fiennes in Schindler's List.
the worst one is erwin rommel(professional soldier,not a nazi officer!) performed by Karl Michael Vogler in Patton.
this guy was almost 20 years younger than rommel was in 1940s.
I agree Fiennes was awesome, one of the best film performances period I have ever seen. I'd love to see a really good portrayal of Hitler.

I didn't really think Vogler was bad in Patton, sure he didn't look like Rommel but I've never really seen anyone playing him in a movie who does very much, and if he was that much younger than Rommel it didn't show, I didn't think. It's basically just a cameo but IMO he played it pretty decently. I like where he says "you can afford to be an optimist, I can't."
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Post by Polynikes » 31 Aug 2004, 04:49

Best portrayal of a German in a war movie was the SS sergeant who joined Kelly's heroes and sold his Tiger I to Oddball.

"Ich hoffe es".

He was scary too.
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Post by ttboy » 31 Aug 2004, 05:07

The Eagle has Landed is one of my favorite war movies with Michael Caine and Robert Duvall playing German officers was great.
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Post by Beppo Schmidt » 31 Aug 2004, 05:09

Donald Pleasence made a great Heinrich Himmler too.
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Post by Polynikes » 31 Aug 2004, 05:33

Is this guy scary or not?
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Post by Beppo Schmidt » 31 Aug 2004, 15:12

That's Karl-Otto Alberty, also appeared in The Battle of Britain, The Winds of War, and War and Remembrance, and yes he is very scary, especially in the last two.
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Post by Jari » 31 Aug 2004, 17:18

Leutnant Grüber from 'Allo 'Allo is the clear winner. :D
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Post by Cammin1 » 31 Aug 2004, 19:36

Beppo Schmidt wrote:That's Karl-Otto Alberty, also appeared in The Battle of Britain, The Winds of War, and War and Remembrance, and yes he is very scary, especially in the last two.
The Great Escape too, sorry just hd to add that. :)
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