Reviewer's Rating 2 out of 5
The Aryan Couple (2006)
12aContains moderate violence and sexual threat

You can think of The Aryan Couple as a case study in why Holocaust movies are so difficult to get right. With the story of Hans (Kenny Doughty) and Ingrid Vassman (Caroline Carver), two servants who work for a rich Jewish family set to be deported by the Nazis, director John Daly tries to confront unimaginable horror and ends up, instead, with sentimentality. Even Oscar-winning Martin Landau, as the Jewish patriarch, disappoints, thanks to a clunking script-by-numbers.

We join Hans and Ingrid on the eve of a crucial day in their employer's life. In occupied Hungary, Joseph Krauzenberg is a rich Jewish industrialist entrenched in negotiations with high-ranking Nazis Adolf Eichmann (Steven Mackintosh) and Heinrich Himmler (Danny Webb), which he hopes will save his family from Auschwitz. Krauzenberg has assumed his German Aryan servants will be safe, but then we learn a secret; Hans and Ingrid are really Jews working for the resistance. What will become of them if the Krauzenbergs secure safe passage to Palestine?

"DIALOGUE IS OF THE SCHMALTZY VARIETY"

End Credits

Director: John Daly

Writer: John Daly, Kendrew Lascelles

Stars: Caroline Carver, Kenny Doughty, Martin Landau, Judy Parfitt, Danny Web, Steven Mackintosh, Christopher Fulford, Nolan Hemmings, Jake Wood

Genre: Drama, Thriller

Length: 120 minutes

Cinema: 12 October 2006

Country: USA

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