Arch of Triumph 1985

Remarque’s engrossing romantic wartime melodrama. Hopkins, as Ravic, is a German citizen who helped Jewish people escape from the murderous anti-Semitic Fatherland. He spent time in a concentration camp & has a horrible scar as a reminder. He lives without papers in Paris, under a false name, aware always that the minute the gendarmes near him he could be sent away or imprisoned as an illegal alien. He dreams of the day he can revenge himself on the Gestapo officer who sent him away, who tortured his friends & who tortured & raped his only love, Sybil.

Genre: Novel Films
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Lesley-Anne Down, Donald Pleasence
Year: 1985
Color/BW: Color
Movie Type: Movies
Decade: 1980s
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