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A woman comes home to finds a wounded fugitive in her house. His partner has taken her daughter. The woman must help the man get medical attention and escape if she ever wants to see her daughter again.
Why would they not hold the daughter hostage in the same house with her mother? Why would the villains expend the extra effort, hassle and risk of splitting up, one partner in crime taking the girl elsewhere?
Why would they not hold the daughter hostage in the same house with her mother? Why would the villains expend the extra effort, hassle and risk of splitting up, one partner in crime taking the girl elsewhere?
See lessBased on true events. ?When a decorated Luftwaffe officer and his family on holiday accidently end up in Nazi death camp Treblinka, they must convince the cruel camp commandant to spare their lives.”
I don't think it is necessary to embellish the concept with other strategies, like attempting to escape. I think there is more than enough dramatic potential to fill out a feature length movie with the prime premise: Act 1: The setup and mixup that result in the officer and his family ending up at TRead more
I don’t think it is necessary to embellish the concept with other strategies, like attempting to escape. I think there is more than enough dramatic potential to fill out a feature length movie with the prime premise:
Act 1: The setup and mixup that result in the officer and his family ending up at Trebllinka, mistaken as Jews.
Act 2a: The officer desperately tries to persuade employees that he’s an honest-to-Aryan German, not a Jew.
Midpoint: someone believes him. Hope!
Act 2b: But in typical German fashion, the issue is kicked up the chain of command, arrives at the commandant’s desk. He is convinced that they are not Jews. More hope!
Twist: BUT: he has orders to follow. The existence and true work of the camp must remain a state secret. So, in true German fashion, he kicks the issue further up the chain of command. In true German fashion, it’s kicked all the way up to Berlin.
Act 3: Orders come down from Berlin: neither he nor his family can be allowed to live, less the cover for the camp be blown. Hope dashed!
Denouement: they are summarily executed, their bodies burned in the crematoria with those of Jews. Berlin fabricates a cover story that he was killed in glorious combat in a daring sortie on the Eastern front.
I think the story is a fabulous gold mine of dramatic conflict, pathos and Kafkaesque irony. Run, don’t walk, with this story Rutger!
See lessBased on true events. ?When a decorated Luftwaffe officer and his family on holiday accidently end up in Nazi death camp Treblinka, they must convince the cruel camp commandant to spare their lives.”
I don't think it is necessary to embellish the concept with other strategies, like attempting to escape. I think there is more than enough dramatic potential to fill out a feature length movie with the prime premise: Act 1: The setup and mixup that result in the officer and his family ending up at TRead more
I don’t think it is necessary to embellish the concept with other strategies, like attempting to escape. I think there is more than enough dramatic potential to fill out a feature length movie with the prime premise:
Act 1: The setup and mixup that result in the officer and his family ending up at Trebllinka, mistaken as Jews.
Act 2a: The officer desperately tries to persuade employees that he’s an honest-to-Aryan German, not a Jew.
Midpoint: someone believes him. Hope!
Act 2b: But in typical German fashion, the issue is kicked up the chain of command, arrives at the commandant’s desk. He is convinced that they are not Jews. More hope!
Twist: BUT: he has orders to follow. The existence and true work of the camp must remain a state secret. So, in true German fashion, he kicks the issue further up the chain of command. In true German fashion, it’s kicked all the way up to Berlin.
Act 3: Orders come down from Berlin: neither he nor his family can be allowed to live, less the cover for the camp be blown. Hope dashed!
Denouement: they are summarily executed, their bodies burned in the crematoria with those of Jews. Berlin fabricates a cover story that he was killed in glorious combat in a daring sortie on the Eastern front.
I think the story is a fabulous gold mine of dramatic conflict, pathos and Kafkaesque irony. Run, don’t walk, with this story Rutger!
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