Seven Minutes *** (1989, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Rebecca Miller, Brian Dennehy, Nigel Le Vaillant, Maggie O’Neill) – Classic Movie Review 11,693

Klaus Maria Brandauer in 2012.

That marvellous Austrian actor Klaus Maria Brandauer leads a splendidly suspense-packed true story thriller as Johann Georg Elser, a German carpenter and clockmaker who takes time out to concoct a plot to kill Adolf Hitler and other high-ranking Nazi leaders with an explosive device on 8 November 1939 at the Bürgerbräukeller in Munich.

The 1989 Seven Minutes is also directed by Brandauer and is a consistently tense and fast-moving film with plenty to satisfy the most demanding of thriller fans.

This edgy and taut outing is firmly based on Stephen Sheppard’s book The Artisan.

Also in the cast are Rebecca Miller, Brian Dennehy, Nigel Le Vaillant, Maggie O’Neill and Roger Ashton-Griffiths.

Seven Minutes is the English version title of the 1989 German film Georg Elser – Einer aus Deutschland by Klaus Maria Brandauer in his first work as movie director.

Elser constructed and placed a bomb near the platform from which Hitler was to deliver a speech. But Hitler left earlier than expected and the bomb killed eight people and injured 62 others. Elser was held prisoner for more than five years until he was shot dead by the Nazis on 9 April 1945 at the Dachau concentration camp less than a month before the surrender of Nazi Germany.

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