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VHS : ChirstabelIn association with Amazon.comstarring: Elizabeth Hurley, Stephen Dillane, Geoffrey Palmer, Ann Bell, Nigel Le Vaillant directed by: Adrian Shergold  List Price: $19.98 Price: $9.11 You Save: $10.87 (54%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9780790753539 Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Original recording reissued, NTSC ISBN: 0790753537 Label: BBC Warner Manufacturer: BBC Warner Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: BBC Warner Release Date: July 19, 2000 Running Time: 149 minutes Studio: BBC Warner Sales Rank: 4138 Related Items:
Editorial Review: Description: Christabel is the incredible true account of one woman's courageous struggle to save her husband from the Nazi death camps. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Amazing and Important History.I am a direct decendant of Peter and Christabel Bielenberg and I was absolutely facinated when I watched this video. I beleive it was a almost perfect portrail of Christabel and her experiances as a German in the war. I also think that if you had not read the book "I once was a German" by Christabel Bielenberg you would have been lost several times in the film. But overall it was a great experiance. Rating:  - A British Woman within the Third ReichThe story of Christabel Bielenberg -- a British woman, married to a German official, who lived in Germany throughout the Second World War -- offers a unique, factual perspective on the rise of fascism within Germany and its daily attrition of human values and dignity. The story is compelling -- whatever minor flaws may have arisen in transfering it to the screen are relatively trivial. Both in Bielenberg's book ("The Past Is Myself") and in the video, the eerie, unexpected arrival of a Latvian ... Read More Rating:  - Potter pottyBeing unfamiliar with the autobiography of Christabel Bielenberg, it's hard to know whether to blame her or the adaptation by Dennis Potter for this BBC miniseries. However equally responsible is director Adrian Shergold ... Although Potter has otherwise stretched the boundaries of naturalism, here he presents material on the level of a Harlequin Barbara Cartland, but without even her passion, and his repeated use of Christabel's name wears very thin. Married to a German during WW2, Christabel represents ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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