Film about local missionary’s daring rescue days before World War II debuts on DVD and streaming

Paul Wuthrich arsenic Norm Seibold successful “Escape from Germany.” Watch our question and reply pinch him successful nan video above. | Photo courtesy Remember Films

IDAHO FALLS – An independent movie astir a section missionary who helped his associates flight from Germany successful nan days earlier World War II is making its measurement to DVD and online streaming this week.

“Escape from Germany” follows Norm Seibold successful 1939 3 days earlier nan German service invaded Poland. The Rupert man, who passed distant successful 2003, was serving a ngo for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints astatine nan time.

This period marks 85 years since nan events depicted successful nan movie, according to a news release.

The movie has played successful 200 theaters nationwide since its April release. After 114 days successful theaters — 1 of nan longest runs of immoderate movie this twelvemonth — it’s earned much than $2.6 cardinal astatine nan container office. It’s a sizable profit for a movie pinch a accumulation fund of little than $1 million.

It’s nan highest-grossing movie of Director T.C. Christensen’s career. He and nan remainder of nan unit are excited astir its debut connected Apple TV and DVD this Friday.

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In a speech pinch EastIdahoNews.com, Paul Wuthrich, who played nan lead domiciled successful nan film, says he’s thrilled pinch its performance.

“This is nan 4th movie I’ve done pinch T.C. It’s my first lead domiciled pinch him. To spot this affirmative consequence is conscionable awesome,” Wuthrich says. “As an actor, you put your bosom and psyche into thing for illustration this and you want it to do well. To get that benignant of feedback is conscionable amazing.”

Fans of this movie mightiness retrieve Wuthrich for his portrayal of Joseph Smith successful nan movie “Witnesses” successful 2021. He had a mini domiciled successful Christensen’s film, “The Fighting Preacher,” successful 2019. Two years earlier, Christensen formed him arsenic a missionary successful “Love, Kennedy.”

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Wuthrich says Christensen had different portion successful mind for him erstwhile nan head started casting for “Escape from Germany” anterior to nan COVID-19 pandemic. Christensen offered him nan lead domiciled respective years later erstwhile accumulation resumed.

He’s proud to person his sanction attached to “an unthinkable story” that wasn’t very well-known anterior to this project.

“That’s 1 of nan reactions a batch of group have,” Wuthrich explains. “As we spell to screenings, 1 mobility we get asked is, ‘Why person we not heard this before?’ It’s been very cool to beryllium a portion of sharing this story.”

The movie is disposable for pre-order here.

WATCH OUR INTERVIEW WITH WUTHRICH IN THE VIDEO ABOVE.

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