Hangmen Also Die (1943) *

The events surrounding the killing of Heydrich in Prague in 1942, completely distorted by screenwriter Bertold Brecht in order to accommodate his Communist political views, creating a fairy-tale version of the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia, as if the real one wasn't compelling enough. Ironically, seeing the disastrous results, Brecht accused director Fritz Lang of distorting his script, but the fault clearly lies with the future citizen of East Germany.