Synopsis
Poland 1943: An unlikely pair - a concentration camp prisoner and a captain in Hitler's notorious SS - free themselves from the wreckage of a crashed SS airplane. The two appear to be strangely familiar with each other and the extent of their extraordinary relationship is thrillingly revealed.
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Cast
- Moritz BleibtreuVictor Kaufmann
- Georg FriedrichRudi Smekal
- Ursula StraussLena
- Marthe KellerHannah Kaufmann
- Udo SamelJakob Kaufmann
- Rainer BockSS-Hauptsturmführer Rauter
- Uwe BohmStandartenführer Widirizek
- Karl FischerSS-Untersturmführer Maier
- Christoph LuserSS-Scharführer Weber
- Serge FalckStandartenführer Noldner
Recommendations
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Variety
Entertaining, though conventionally told war story. - 60
New York Daily News
The script relies on too many unlikely twists, but Bleibtreu manages to sell them all. - 50
Slant Magazine
This twist-heavy World War II drama would play as an absurdist comedy if the director wasn't so dead set on excluding just about any trace of humor from his self-serious project. - 50
The A.V. Club
The result is a movie largely devoid of attitude or suspense. My Best Enemy is brisk and eventful, but after a while, it begins to seem like Murnberger is rushing through this material, afraid to dwell too long on any one situation, lest it tip too far into exploitation. - 40
Village Voice
Getting even is wearying in My Best Enemy, a banal World War II thriller dependent on contrived role reversals. - 40
Time Out
My Best Enemy bleeds suspense like a pin-pricked tire. It wants to be clever, but survivor tales bring with them too much muck. - 40
The Hollywood Reporter
Trying to be amusing and respectfully serious at the same time, Austrian director Wolfgang Murnberger's film remains in limbo, saddled with an over-worked story, characters and setting. - 40
The New York Times
An awkward blend of anti-Semitic atrocities and identity-swapping absurdity, the World War II drama My Best Enemy struggles to find a convincing tone.
