Details

Release year: 1985

Storyline

Emerald is an agent the Germans "have" inside allied intelligence 1944/WWII. With "help" from Emerald, the Germans catch Wheeler, believed to know the when and where of D-Day. Emerald is sent to be Wheeler's cell mate. Let the game begin.

Top credits

Directors

Jonathan Sanger

Writers

Ron Bass

Cast

Ed Harris — Gus Lang
Max von Sydow — Jurgen Brausch
Horst Buchholz — Walter Hoffman
Helmut Berger — Ernst Ritter

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Did you know

• Ed Harris and Max von Sydow collaborated again in Needful Things (1993).

• PROLOGUE: "April 1944, World War II ... Just weeks before the top secret Allied invasion of Nazi-occupied France." "The Nazis were desperate to capture an 'Overlord' -the code name of the few British and Americans who knew the time and place of the planned invasion early June on the Normandy Coast of France." "To this date, every Nazi attempt to capture an 'Overlord' had failed."

• Directorial debut of Jonathan Sanger.