Showing results for "Sounds" in 20th Century

When the Germans march into Denmark, Baron Henrik Ahlefeldt exchanges his nobility for anonymity, assuming a new identity so he can secretly row messages for the Danish Resistance across the waters to Sweden. American physicist Dr. Else Jensen refuses to leave Copenhagen and abandon her research-her life's dream. While printing resistance newspapers, she hears stories of the movement's legendary Havmand-the merman-and wonders if the mysterious and silent shipyard worker living in the same boardinghouse has something to hide.

September, 1943. Tuscany, Italy. In the hilltop town of Barga, everyone holds their breath. Even the bells fall silent. Everything Vittoria Guidi knows and loves is at risk. German troops occupy the mountains around her home, as America's Buffalo Soldiers prepare to invade. As Vittoria's country is torn in two, so is her conscience. Should she side with her Scots-Italian father or her Fascist mother? Should she do what she is told - or what she believes in?

In München marschiert eine Gruppe von Rassisten, Antisemiten und anderen rechten Hetzern auf. Umringt werden sie von Polizei und Gegendemonstranten, unter ihnen der jüdische Stadtrat Felix Mandelbaum. Dann ein Zusammenstoß in der Menschenmenge – ein Anschlag? Mandelbaum wird festgenommen, in einer kargen Zelle steht ihm die längste Nacht seines Lebens bevor.