Verboten!

World War II is over. A new war begins. Inside occupied Germany, neo-Nazi insurgents wage a campaign of terror aimed at undermining the American Military Government. Among those experiencing the waves of violence is an ex-G.I. (James Best) married to a Fräulein (Susan Cummings) he met when U.S. forces fought their way into the town of Rothbach. “I felt like a chef making a hardy soup – blending together postwar Germany, Beethoven, Wagner, unrepentant Nazis and the Nuremberg war trials,” filmmaker and combat vet Samuel Fuller recalled about Verboten! Fuller seasons his soup with soul-searing documentary footage from his own war-era archives. It’s an assertive and thought-provoking celluloid dish.