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Sylvester Groth has 8 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1990s through the 2020s.
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Stalingrad
2013
War · Action

1942: Unknown Battle
2019
War · Drama

Land of Mine
2015
War · Drama

Redbad
2018
Adventure · History

The Legend of Tomiris
2019
History · War

The Flowers of War
2011
Drama · History

The Dressmaker
2015
Drama · Comedy

The Warrior
2001
History · Drama

At the height of the Cold War, a mysterious criminal organization plans to use nuclear weapons and technology to upset the fragile balance of power between the United States and Soviet Union. CIA agent Napoleon Solo and KGB agent Illya Kuryakin are forced to put aside their hostilities and work together to stop the evildoers in their tracks. The duo's only lead is the daughter of a missing German scientist, whom they must find soon to prevent a global catastrophe.
Dir. Guy Ritchie · With Henry Cavill, Armie Hammer, Alicia Vikander

Career-soldier Wilhelm, his pacifist younger brother Friedhelm, and their friends Charlotte, Viktor and Greta say farewell in the summer of 1941 in Berlin, with the promise to meet again after the war.
Dir. Philipp Kadelbach · With Volker Bruch, Tom Schilling, Katharina Schüttler
A German Platoon is explored through the brutal fighting of the Battle of Stalingrad. After half of their number is wiped out and they're placed under the command of a sadistic captain, the platoon lieutenant leads his men to desert. The platoon members attempt escape from the city, now surrounded by the Soviet Army.
Dir. Joseph Vilsmaier · With Dominique Horwitz, Thomas Kretschmann, Jochen Nickel

Taking place at the Concentration camp Buchenwald at the end of March 1945, prisoner Hans Pippig discovers in a carrying case of an incoming prisoner a Jewish child. If reported the three-year-old is sure to die. On the other hand, a violation of the rules of the camp would threaten the long prepared uprising of the concentration camp prisoners against the SS.
Dir. Philipp Kadelbach · With Florian Stetter, Peter Schneider, Sylvester Groth

A gripping coming-of-age story set against the real culture wars and political events of Germany in the 1980s. The drama follows Martin Rauch as the 24 year-old East Germany native is pulled from the world as he knows it and sent to the West as an undercover spy for the Stasi foreign service. Hiding in plain sight in the West German army, he must gather the secrets of NATO military strategy. Everything is new, nothing is quite what it seems and everyone he encounters is harboring secrets, both political and personal.
Dir. Anna Winger, Jörg Winger · With Jonas Nay, Maria Schrader, Svenja Jung

A group of top female agents from American, British, Chinese, Colombian, and German government agencies are drawn together to try and stop an organization from acquiring a deadly weapon to send the world into chaos.
Dir. Simon Kinberg · With Jessica Chastain, Lupita Nyong'o, Penélope Cruz

In the interview room, detectives go head-to-head with suspects and try to get to the truth—even if it means breaking the rules and risking it all.
Dir. Jim Field Smith, George Kay · With Eva Meckbach, Sylvester Groth, Florence Kasumba
Hitler no longer believes in himself, and can barely see himself as an equal to even his sheep dog. But to seize the helm of the war he would have to create one of his famous fiery speeches to mobilize the masses. Goebbels therefore brings a Jewish acting teacher Grünbaum and his family from the camps in order to train the leader in rhetoric. Grünbaum is torn, but starts Hitler in his therapy ...
Dir. Dani Levy · With Helge Schneider, Ulrich Mühe, Sylvester Groth
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