Pursuit

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An SS Colonel plays out a savage masquerade from the death camps of the Third Reich to Israel's desperate fight for survival. 1944: as the German defeat becomes inevitable, SS Colonel Helmut von Schareder, 'The Monster of Maidanek', lays his plans to escape retribution. Through plastic surgery he becomes a Jew, enters Belsen and awaits liberation. But the war has still a year to run and the masquerade turns into a bitter struggle to survive. From the horrors of Belsen to the new state of Israel and, trapped in his own duplicity, Schraeder becomes a soldier for his new homeland and rises to the rank of General. For General Grossman life, with his beautiful Israeli wife, is good until ... the past re-emerges to confront him with its remorseless face as suddenly, for Benjamin Grossman, alias Helmut von Schareder, alias 'The Monster of Maidanek', the PURSUIT begins.