Reinhard Heydrich: Last News

Carmel Dagan Staff WriterDavid Warner, an English actor who gave memorable performances on the big screen, in a key role in “The Omen,” and as villains in “Time After Time,” “Time Bandits” and “Tron,” has died. He was 80.The actor died of a cancer-related illness, his family told the BBC.

Nazi-themed wedding.On the day, the bride named only as “Josefina,” rolled up to the wedding in a VW Beetle emblazoned with swastikas that sported an “SS” personalised number plate.Meanwhile her husband-to-be “Fernando” sported a full Nazi officer’s uniform, complete with death’s head insignia on the cap.The VW was chosen as German designer Ferdinand Porsche was commissioned by Adolf Hitler to build the "people's car” in the 1930s.Even the date of the wedding – April 29 – had been carefully selected to mark the 77th anniversary of 'Der Führer’s' wedding to Eva Braun.The couple already have two kids: a daughter named Hanna after German test pilot Hanna Reitsch, a close confidante of the Nazi leader who was one of the last people to see Hitler alive and a son named "Reinhard," after notorious SS commander Reinhard Heydrich, who is remembered as principal architect of the Holocaust.Posting the photos of the poor-taste wedding the groom told the Mexican news outlet Milenio: "I understand that for many people, Hitler represents genocide, racism, and violence.“People, on the other hand, make judgments without having all of the facts or believing in the victor's history".He added: “Hitler was a vegetarian who rescued his country from famine and returned to his people the lands lost during World War I. His friends and family adored him.

Leo Barraclough International Features EditorGlobal Screen has closed a raft of sales for “The Conference,” a historically accurate drama about the Wannsee Conference in Berlin, a meeting that had only one item on the agenda: the organization of the systematic mass murder of 11 million European Jews. The film has been acquired by Menemsha Films (North America), Pivot Pictures (Australia), The Klockworx (Japan), Swallow Wings (Taiwan), RAI (Italy), Flins & Piniculas (Spain), Films 4 You (Portugal), Arti Film (Benelux), Edge Entertainment (Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Iceland and Baltics), ITI Neovision (Poland), RTV (Slovenia), Italian-speaking Switzerland (RSI) and Red Cape (Israel).

Will Tizard ContributorHorror has many dimensions still to be explored, says DP, director and writer Sean Ellis in describing his film screening in the Camerimage Film Festival’s main competition, “Eight for Silver.”A dark and brooding story of evil’s long tail, the film is Ellis’ fifth feature since an impressive debut with the surreal “Cashback” in 2006 and follows his Prague-shot true-story thriller “Anthropoid,” a remarkably detailed and accurate account of the most successful assassination plot of World War II against a top Nazi commander, Reinhard Heydrich.“Eight for Silver” opens theatrically in the U.S.