| Genre: | Biography Drama War |
| Director: | Brian Gibson |
| Starring: | Ben Kingsley Renée Soutendijk Craig T. Nelson Anton Lesser Jack Shepherd Paul Freeman |
| Theme Music Composer: | Bill Conti |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | English |
| Executive Producer: | Graham Benson David R. Ginsburg |
| Producer: | Bob Cooper John Kemeny Abby Mann |
| Editor: | Éva Gárdos Randy Kumano Chris Wimble |
| Cinematography: | Elemér Ragályi |
| Runtime: | 160 minutes |
| Company: | Citadel Entertainment HBO Pictures |
| Network: | HBO |
Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story is a 1989 American biographical film directed by Brian Gibson and written by Abby Mann, Robin Vote and Ron Hutchinson. The film stars Ben Kingsley, Renée Soutendijk, Craig T. Nelson, Anton Lesser, Jack Shepherd and Paul Freeman. The film premiered on HBO on April 23, 1989.[1] [2] [3] [4]
The film is based on Wiesenthal's book of the same name that was published in 1967.
As Austrian Jews living in Ukraine at the beginning of World War II, Simon Wiesenthal and his family are captured by Nazis and sent to live in a series of prison camps, where Wiesenthal cheats death several times. When he is liberated from Mauthausen in 1945, Wiesenthal provides vital information to the Americans in the Nuremberg War Trials and dedicates his life to hunting down Nazi war criminals, even though doing so comes at a cost to his family.