DVD Review: Walking with the Enemy

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Laurence
– April 25, 2017Find Others: DVD, Movie, New Release, NewsGet More: , ,

DVD Release Date: April 11, 2017
Price: DVD $14.99
Studio: Twentieth Century Fox

Based on a true story, the 2013 drama Walking with the Enemy stars Oscar-winning actor Ben Kingsley (Exodus: Gods and Kings).

Ben Kingsley in Walking with the Enemy

Inspired by a true story, the film follows the lives of a world leader and a young man swept up in the horrors of WWII. Both men are from Hungary–a country and German ally that had been spared the atrocities orchestrated by Hitler throughout much of Europe. As the war reaches its climax, Germany begins to doubt the loyalties of the Hungarian leadership-in particular Regent Horthy (Kingsley). The Regent tries to navigate his country between the growing terror of Nazi Germany and the oppressive threat of communist Russia. He is ultimately faced with ceding power to another political party or accepting the execution of his son. As the crisis unfolds, thousands of his citizens are forced underground or put into ghettos. One of them is a young man named Elek Cohen (Jonas Armstrong) who is separated from his family and determined to find them. Aided by the woman he loves (Hannah Tointon), Elek disguises himself as a Nazi SS officer…

Rated PG-13, the movie represents the first directing credit of Mark Armstrong.

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Founder and editor Laurence Lerman saw Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest when he was 13 years old and that’s all it took. He has been writing about film and video for more than a quarter of a century for magazines, anthologies, websites and most recently, Video Business magazine, where he served as the Reviews Editor for 15 years.