This second world war-set feature dramatises the story of German-resistance figure Helmuth Hübener, a Mormon teenager from Hamburg who went from being a member of the Hitler Youth to distributing leaflets denouncing the Nazi regime. According to the film, Hübener (Ewan Horrocks) was partly inspired to act because his Jewish friend Salomon Schwarz gets shipped off to Auschwitz – though Hübener’s main motivation, apparently, was that he wanted people to know the truth, hence the movie’s alliterative title.
It would be oh-so-easy to dismiss this film as maladroit Christian saviour-touting melodrama, however historically accurate it might be. It is especially tempting given one of the companies backing it is faith-based outfit Angel Studios, which brought us the QAnon-adjacent Sound of Freedom a few years back. Plus, poor old Salomon (Nye Occomore) barely features much before he meets his epiphany-inciting fate. He certainly doesn’t get as much screen time as Hübener’s chief antagonist, Gestapo officer Erwin Mussener (Rupert Evans), who we learn has a soft side and his own freight of tragedy to bear before he starts yanking people’s fingernails out.
