![]() ![]() Moments later, the FBI raids the hideout but, again, Wirtanen uses his influence to ensure Campbell walks free. Campbell returns to the hideout to confront the pair in light of her exposure, Resi commits suicide. Wirtanen reappears, warning Campbell of Kraft's true identity and explaining that Kraft and Resi have put Campbell in an awkward position with the neo-Nazis to ensure his transfer to Moscow. The neo-Nazis shelter Campbell, along with Kraft and Resi, in their Manhattan hideout. However, it is not long before Campbell discovers that Helga is actually Resi, who had taken Helga's identity to escape from East Germany. Representatives of this group meet Campbell and present him with a woman who seems to be Helga. He leaks information about Campbell's whereabouts, which gets the attention of a neo-Nazi organization. Over many games of chess, Campbell reveals his secret past to Kraft, who tries to use this information to improve his standing with his handlers by forcing Campbell into a position where he must flee to Moscow. Campbell's only friend is George Kraft, an elderly painter who, through an extraordinary coincidence, happens to be a Soviet intelligence agent. Epstein, a Holocaust survivor living in Campbell's building, is the only person who suspects his true identity he seems to avoid her suspicions by feigning ignorance of German. In New York City, Campbell lives a lonely existence for fifteen years, sustained only by memories of Helga and an indifferent curiosity about his eventual fate. Although that means that Campbell is doomed to be a pariah, Wirtanen is unsympathetic, reasoning that Campbell would not have wanted the truth known had Germany won the war. ![]() Campbell is shocked to learn that the American government will not reveal Campbell's true role in the war, because that would also reveal the spycraft techniques that America may continue to need for the next war. Before he can be executed, Wirtanen arranges for Campbell's discreet release and helps his relocation to New York City. Helga's younger sister, Resi, confesses that she is in love with him.Įventually, Campbell is captured when an American infantryman recognizes his voice. Late in the war, after his wife, Helga, is reportedly killed on the Eastern Front, Campbell visits her family in early 1945 outside Berlin, just before the Red Army arrives. – form a secret code that covertly transmits information to Allied intelligence agencies. Unknown to the Nazis, all of the idiosyncrasies of his speech – deliberate pauses, coughing, etc. In the initial stages of the war, Campbell works his way up through Joseph Goebbels' Propaganda Ministry, eventually becoming the "voice" of English language broadcasts propagating Nazism and anti-Semitism at American citizens (a parallel to the real broadcaster, Dr. Campbell rejects the offer, but Wirtanen adds that he wants Campbell to take some time to consider, telling him that Campbell's answer will come in the form of how he acts and what positions he assumes once the war begins. in the approaching war, though he promises no reward or recognition. Wirtanen asks Campbell to work as a spy for the U.S. ![]() During the buildup to World War II, Campbell, an American playwright of German language stage productions, is approached by War Department operative Frank Wirtanen. writes a memoir about his career in Nazi Germany. Vonnegut makes a brief appearance in a scene in New York City.Ĭonfined in an Israeli jail, Howard W. The film also stars Sheryl Lee, John Goodman, Kirsten Dunst, Alan Arkin, and Frankie Faison. The film is narrated by Campbell, through a series of flashbacks, as he sits in a jail cell in Israel, writing his memoirs, and awaiting trial for war crimes. government keeps his true wartime role a closely guarded secret, Campbell is forced to live under an assumed identity. After the war, Campbell relocates to New York City, where he attempts to live in obscurity. As World War II looms, Campbell meets a man who claims to be from the United States Department of War, and is recruited to spy for the U.S., transmitting Nazi propaganda containing hidden messages that can only be decoded by Allied intelligence. Campbell, Jr., an American who moves with his family to Germany after World War I and goes on to become a successful German-language playwright. It is based on Kurt Vonnegut's 1961 novel of the same name. Mother Night is a 1996 American romantic war drama film produced and directed by Keith Gordon. ![]()
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