Max and Helen

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Max and Helen ★★½ 1990

Uneven, but sensitive and at times highly moving made for TV story of two lovers who are victims of the holocaust. Max (Williams) survives both Nazi and Stalinist camps out of both love for his fiancee and guilt for having lived while she did not. 94m/C VHS . GB Treat Williams, Alice Krige, Martin Landau, Jodhi May, John Phillips, Adam Kotz; D: Philip Saville; W: Corey Blechman. TV

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