The Mortal Storm

The Mortal Storm

1940 · 100 min · EN · NR · 7.4 (103 votes)
Dir. Frank Borzage · Starring Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart, Robert Young, Frank Morgan, Robert Stack, Bonita Granville · Music Bronislau Kaper

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Drama

The Roth family leads a quiet life in a small village in the German Alps during the early 1930s. After the Nazis come to power, the family is divided and Martin Breitner, a family friend, is caught up in the turmoil.

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A chillingly prescient drama that captures the creeping dread of rising fascism. It feels like a slow-motion descent into paranoia, where ordinary lives are irrevocably shattered by political extremism.

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