The Night of the Generals

The rules of diplomacy from those of war. In the wake of a startling revelation, Major Grau communicates When the discovery of the murdered prostitute in Nazi-occupied Warsaw unleashes an international manhunt for a psychopathic sex killer, the crime takes on special import, both for its bestiality and because the evidence points to the murderer being one of three Nazi officers -- General Tanz (Peter O'Toole), a steely-eyed German combat commander; General Von Seydlitz-Gabler (Clark Gray), the Nazi commander in Warsaw, and Gabler's chief of staff, General Kahlenberge (Donald Pleasence). As Major Grau (Omar Sharif), a German army intelligence officer and an anti-Nazi intellectual, initiates the manhunt, his investigation is complicated by extenuating circumstances, including an affair between Gabler's daughter and Lance Corporal Hartmann (Tom Courtenay) and conflicting evidence provided by Nazi intelligence sources. Grau is further hampered by having separate his findings to French Surete Inspector Morand (Philippe Noiret). And though Grau is killed, years later Morand's search finally identifies the killer in Nuremberg.