Fact-based German musical, along the conventional lines of the coming-together and breaking-up of a singing group, with the difference that the break-up is the doing of the Nazis. (Three members of the sextet, the Comedian Harmonists, were Jewish.) Unimaginatively filmed, with a misty image and an overload of closeups, but the intricate harmonies tickle the ear. Ben Becker, Heino Ferch, Ulrich Noethen; directed by Joseph Vilsmaier. (1998) — Duncan Shepherd
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