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Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart, Robert Young

The Roth family lead a quiet life in a small village in the German Alps during the early 1930's. When the Nazi's come to power, the family is divided and Martin Brietner, a family friend is caught up ...( read more  read more... )in the turmoil.

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Unrated, 1 hr. 40 min.

Directed by: Frank Borzage

Release Date: January 1, 1940

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  • rubystevens
    May 20, 2008
    rubystevens
    they'll never make a nazi out of jimmy stewart!
  • Phonex
    July 14, 2009
    Phonex
    During a dinner party to celebrate the occasion of Professor Roth's (Frank Morgan) 60th birthday, news of Adolf Hitler's ascension to the position of German chancellor at the Roth home is met with fervent excitement by his stepsons Otto (Robert Stack) and Erich (William T. Orr), ...( read more)and his daughter's suitor Fritz Marberg (Robert Young) who believe that the new leader holds the key to restore the lost greatness of the German nation, and with tempered ambivalence by Professor Roth - a euphemistically called "non-Aryan" intellectual - and his protégé, a veterinary student named Martin Breitner (James Stewart) who disagree with Hitler's policies of racial segregation, unilateralism, and warmongering. From this opening premise, Frank Borzage sets the poignant, defiant, and socially incisive tone for the inevitable tragedy and ruin that befall the Roth family as the remote Alpine town near the Austrian border becomes increasingly seduced by the sense of empowerment and solidarity provided by the Nazi movement...and with it, its oppressively (and destructively) isolationist, xenophobic, and militarist policies. Structured within the melodramatic framework of an ill-fated love affair between Martin and Professor Roth's daughter Freya (Margaret Sullavan), The Mortal Storm is an elegantly realized, penetrating, and chillingly prescient cautionary tale of socially accepted blind obedience, collective mentality, and narrow-minded self-righteousness: an indelible - and continually relevant - portrait of true compassion and human courage in the face of a prevailing, inhuman tide of intolerance and aggression.
  • PabloMF4
    August 11, 2008
    PabloMF4
    One of the best movies of the 30`s.... Great WW2 movie....
  • alsal
    June 28, 2007
    alsal
    This is one great movie. I definitely teared up at least three times during it. I can't believe a lot of this stuff was going in Germany. Everyone needs to see this. And thank God for Jimmy Stewart being the voice of reason and standing up for it.
  • ohiorepublican
    May 20, 2007
    ohiorepublican
    Movie about a family during the rise of Adolf Hitler. Very good and made to increase awareness in 1940.

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