If it weren't for unpredictable weather, Georg Elser might have changed the course of history. In November of 1939, Elser, a carpenter from Königsbronn, hollowed out a pillar in a Munich beer hall and ...

Oliver Hirschbiegel will direct the film about the German carpenter who tried to assassinate Hitler in 1939. By Scott Roxborough Europe Bureau Chief Elser, a simple carpenter, nearly changed the ...

The German historical drama “13 Minutes” opens with the sound of strenuous human grunting, accompanied by the regular ticktock of a mechanical timer. It’s Nov. 8, 1939, several hours before an ...

Downfall director Oliver Hirschbiegel is returning to familiar territory with Nazi-era drama Georg Elser. Billed as an emotional portrait of the resistance fighter who tried to assassinate Adolf ...

You can’t expect a storyteller to wring much suspense out of a real-life plot to assassinate Hitler. In the case of Georg Elser, the subject of Oliver Hirschbiegel’s German drama 13 Minutes, the ...

The German drama “13 Minutes” is a riveting story about one man’s attempt to stop World War II when it had barely started, by acting on the evil he saw but few of his countrymen did. Georg Elser ...

Georg Elser (Christian Friedel) is doomed from the very beginning of “13 Minutes.” Picked up by a random patrol for behaving suspiciously, he’s in police custody when the homemade time bomb he planted ...

“Downfall” helmer Oliver Hirschbiegel is set to direct German drama “Georg Elser,” a biopic of the resistance fighter who attempted to kill Hitler in 1939. Repped in international markets by ...

Georg Elser (Christian Friedel) is doomed from the very beginning of “13 Minutes.” Picked up by a random patrol for behaving in a suspicious manner, he’s already in police custody when the homemade ...

You can’t expect a storyteller to wring much suspense out of a real-life plot to assassinate Hitler. In the case of Georg Elser, the subject of Oliver Hirschbiegel’s German drama 13 Minutes, the ...