Though a brief plot summary makes this film sound like a prototype for the 'Nazisploitation' movies of the 1970s, Lebensborn (Ordered to Kill) is based firmly in fact. As appalling as it is to imagine, the Nazis really did assign young women to act as breeders to ensure the continuance of the master race. Artistic license is taken by screenwriter Will Berthold, whose story follows the exploits of a German infantryman masquerading as an officer assigned to canoodle for the Fuhrer. By and large, this is a well made, serious drama; I'd love to see a German-language print but the English-language dub isn't too awful.
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