Christabel (1988)★ 6.5/10
- Drama
- Biography
Directed by: Adrian Shergold
Written by: Christabel Bielenberg, Dennis Potter
An English woman's marriage to a German lawyer is tested when her husband is imprisoned for an anti-Hitler plot, forcing her to consider using her tie to Winston Churchill to secure his release.
- Original title
- Christabel
- Storyline
- An English girl marries a German lawyer in the 1930s and they try to live as normal a life as they can in Hitler's Germany. When Allied bombs start falling on German cities, Christabel takes her two young sons to a village in the mountains. Then she learns that her husband and some of his friends have been arrested for plotting to assassinate Hitler. She travels to the prison where he is held, wondering if telling the commandant that she knows Winston Churchill will help her husband or seal his fate. This is said to be based on a true story.
- Rating
- 6.5 / 10 · 247
- Companies
- A+E Networks, British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
- Release dates
- GB November 16, 1988
- SE December 19, 1988
- BE February 10, 1989
- US September 10, 2010