Mother Night [1996] Nick Nolte

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Mother Night (1996)


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Mother Night is a 1996 film based on Kurt Vonnegut's 1961 book of the same name.


Nick Nolte ... Howard Campbell
Sheryl Lee ... Helga Noth / Resi Noth
Alan Arkin ... George Kraft
Bernard Behrens ... Reverend Dr. Lionel Jones
Anna Berger ... Epstein's Mother
Arye Gross ... Dr. Abraham Epstein
Norman Rodway ... Werner Noth
Frankie Faison ... Robert Sterling Wilson
Gerard Parkes ... Father Patrick Keeley
Vlasta Vrana ... August Krapptauer
Zach Grenier ... Joseph Goebbels
Kirsten Dunst ... Young Resi Noth
Anthony J. Robinow ... Prison Warden
Michael McGill ... Prison Official
Shimon Aviel ... Guard Bernard Liebman


Nick Nolte stars as Howard W. Campbell Jr., an American who moves with his family to Germany directly after World War I and goes on to become a successful German language playwright. As World War II looms, Campbell meets a man claiming to be a member of the U.S. War Department and is recruited to work as a spy for the U.S., transmitting Nazi propaganda in such a way that it contains hidden messages that can only be decoded by Allied intelligence. After the war, Campbell is relocated to his native state of New York, where he attempts to live in obscurity.

The film also stars Sheryl Lee as Campbell's German wife, John Goodman as the mysterious Frank Wirtanen, Alan Arkin as one of Campbell's New York neighbours, and Frankie Faison as a black leader involved with a white supremacist group. Vonnegut himself makes a brief appearance in a later scene in New York City.

The film is narrated by Campbell, through a series of flashbacks, as he sits in a jail cell in Israel, writing his memoirs and waiting to stand trial for war crimes.