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Before The Fall DVD

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The world learns that a planet killing meteorite will arrive in 72 hours.

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Released
23 January 2012
Directors
Actors
Format
DVD 
Publisher
Metrodome Group 
Classification
Runtime
110 minutes 
Features
PAL 
Barcode
5055002556784 
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German drama about a Nazi military training school. With the Second World War in full swing, two teenaged boys are enrolled in the National Political Academy (NaPolA), a youth facility for the training of future Nazi leaders. Friedrich (Max Riemelt), a working-class boy with a talent for boxing, and the Governor's sensitive, poetry-loving son, Albrecht (Tom Schilling), must lay aside their innocence and humanity as they prepare to join the Nazi elite.

One of the Third Reich's sinister plans for training a legion of strong and obedient young men to do their bidding is exposed in this historical drama, inspired by true-life events. In 1942, Friedrich Weimer (Max Riemelt) is a 16-year-old amateur fighter who is spotted while working out at a boxing club by Heinrich Vogler (Devid Striesow). Vogler is a recruiter for the National-Political Institutes of Learning (called "NAPOLA" for short), where promising young men with various talents will be taught to hone their strength, cunning, and fearlessness to a fine point, with the ultimate goal of using NAPOLA graduates to help rule the territories Nazis will overtake once they've won the war. Vogler invites Weimer to join the NAPOLA training facility in Allenstein, and he accepts, despite the strong misgivings of his family. Weimer is at first enthusiastic and committed to his new regimen, and becomes friendly with a fellow student, Albrecht Stein (Tom Schilling), an aspiring writer whose father, a important man in the German military, would like to see him join the SS. Stein does not embrace the training with the same enthusiasm as many of his fellows, and in time he and Weimer develop feelings for one another that go beyond friendship. In time, Weimer begins to lose his enthusiasm for NAPOLA, especially after a mission to find escaped Russian prisoners leads to the death of unarmed teenagers, and he looks for a way to rebel against the repressive system.