# Clive Owen’s New Movie Officially Unveils First Look at an Infamous Moment in Pre-World War II Germany

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/clive-owens-new-movie-officially-unveils-first-look-at-an-infamous-moment-in-pre-world-war-ii-germany/
- Published: 2026-11-10T16:00:12+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-10T20:05:26+00:00
- Original publisher: Collider
- Original article: https://collider.com/clive-owen-the-night-of-broken-glass-sneak-peek/
- Topics: Entertainment, Europe, Film, World

## Key points

- Clive Owen and Alex Pettyfer star in a drama about Kristallnacht.
- The story follows Berlin police investigating Ernst vom Rath’s murder.
- The film is due in cinemas on 29 January.

## Summary

Clive Owen and Alex Pettyfer star in *The Night of Broken Glass*, a historical drama set during the 1938 Kristallnacht pogrom in Germany. A newly released sneak peek shows the film’s police investigators confronting a crowd as Nazi officers fan hostility, offering a view of the persecution and violence that preceded the Holocaust.

Owen plays Berlin police lieutenant Wilhelm Krützfeld, who is investigating the murder of Jewish doctor Ernst vom Rath alongside his partner Kai Lehmann, played by Pettyfer. The film follows Krützfeld as he struggles between his duty and his conscience amid the regime’s exploitation of a German diplomat’s assassination in Paris. Mélanie Laurent also stars, Stefan Ruzowitzky directs, and the film is due in cinemas on 29 January.

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