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Apt Pupil is a 1998 American thriller film directed by Bryan Singer and starring Ian McKellen and Brad Renfro. It is based on the 1982 novella of the same name by Stephen King. In the 1980s in southern California, high school student Todd Bowden (Renfro) discovers fugitive Nazi war criminal Kurt Dussander (McKellen) living in his neighborhood ...
Apt Pupil: Directed by Bryan Singer. With Brad Renfro, Ian McKellen, Joshua Jackson, Mickey Cottrell. A boy blackmails his neighbor after suspecting him to be a Nazi war criminal.
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- Crime, Drama, Thriller
- Bryan Singer
- 1998-10-23
Kurt Dussander (1898-1978) is the main antagonist from Apt Pupil. Dussander was born in Germany in 1898 and joined the Schutzstaffel (SS) in the 1930s, receiving an officer's commission. During the war he was one of the many members of the SS tasked with carrying out the "Final Solution," the elimination of Jews and all other enemies of the Nazi state. Before, during, or sometime after the ...
"Apt Pupil" is a novella written by Stephen King and published in his 1982 collection Different Seasons. The story was adapted into the 1998 film. In 1974, Todd Bowden, a Los Angeles teenager, arrives at the doorstep of elderly German immigrant Arthur Denker, accusing him of being a wanted Nazi war criminal named Kurt Dussander. Todd has spent a few months prior to confronting Dussander ...
Dec 5, 2018 · The film: Todd Bowden (Brad Renfro) discovers that his neighbour, Kurt Dussander (Ian McKellen), is a former Nazi Sturmbannführer who worked at a death camp during the Second World War ...
Apt Pupil. Apt Pupil (1982) is a novella by Stephen King subtitled "Summer of Corruption", originally published in the 1982 novella collection Different Seasons with a more dramatic bent, rather than the horror fiction for which King is famous. [1] Apt Pupil consists of 30 chapters, many of which are headed by a month.
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Oct 23, 1998 · 3 min read. “Apt Pupil” uses the horrors of the Holocaust as an atmospheric backdrop to the more conventional horror devices of a Stephen King story. It’s not a pretty sight. By the end of the film, as a death camp survivor is quoting John Donne’s poem about how no man is an island, we’re wondering what island the filmmakers were ...
