“Truth in the Depths of Darkness”

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What You Need To Know:
TRUTH & TREASON succeeds on a dramatic, technical and moral level. Its greatest strength lies in its performances. The acting is superb. TRUTH & TREASON also has a strong moral worldview about fighting evil. In addition, the teenage hero and his friends pray to God and quote the Bible multiple times. They also mention Jesus. However, the hero and his two friends are Mormons, which has an unbiblical view of the historical Jesus, who is God and man. TRUTH & TREASON also has strong scenes of violence, including torture. So, MOVIEGUIDE® advises extreme caution.
Content:
Very strong moral worldview where a 17-year-old boy and his friends fight Hitler’s National Socialist tyranny in Germany during World War II, the teenage hero distributes a series of letters exposing the evils of Nazi Germany to his countrymen, the protagonist and his friends pray to God and quote the Bible multiple times, the heroes avoid escaping Germany in order to tell the truth, a writer keeps his cool during a brutal interrogation by the Germans, the hero accepts his fate of getting executed for treason, the hero and his friends pray to God and quote the Bible multiple times, the heroes positively mention Jesus, but the teenage hero and some of his friends are Mormon, which has an unbiblical view of the historical Jesus;
No foul language;
Strong violence throughout, the heroes get physically beaten up by German officers and citizens, a man is flogged by an officer and receives bloody marks on his back, the hero has a dream of his countrymen getting bombed by European planes, the hero gets a knife shoved into his hand during an interrogation, the hero gets chased by an officer through the city, characters mention the Nazi concentration camps for Jews, and a character is executed by guillotine;
No sex scenes or sexual immorality, but a major subplot involves the hero going on a date with a female German writer, and the side characters comment on the hero’s inability to get a date;
Upper male nudity in two scenes when men wear no shirts;
No alcohol use;
No on-screen drug use, but three scenes of German officers lighting cigars; and,
The German government spies on its citizens to find Helmuth’s true identity, some Mormon Church officials betray Christ’s teachings and side with the Nazi Party, a landlord snitches on the heroes for their contraband radio device, and the hero witnesses a friend get taken away by Nazi officers.
More Detail:
TRUTH & TREASON succeeds on a dramatic, technical and moral level. Its greatest strength lies in its performances. The acting is superb, especially in the scenes of Helmuth contemplating his inner struggle between pursuing the truth or running away from evil.
TRUTH & TREASON has a strong moral worldview about young people exposing the evils of Adolph Hitler’s National Socialist tyranny in Germany during World War II. It also has some strong Christian, biblical content where the hero and his friends pray to God and quote the Bible multiple times. They also mention Jesus. However, the teenage hero and his two friends are Mormons, which is a false Non-Christian cult with an unbiblical view of the historical Jesus.
TRUTH & TREASON also has strong scenes of violence, including some scenes of torture. For example, the hero and his friends get punched and assaulted by their German countrymen. In a few dream sequences, Helmuth imagines planes dropping bombs on his Mormon brethren in the city. Later, a German officer shoves a knife under Helmuth’s fingernail to force him to reveal his secret identity.
Therefore, MOVIEGUIDE® advises strong and extreme caution for teenagers and adults.