The Man in the High Castle
A glimpse into an alternate history of North America: what life after WWII may have been like if the Nazis had won the war. The Man in the High Castle explores daily life in 1962, fourteen years after the end of a longer Second World War (1939–1948 in this history). The victorious Axis Powers - Imperial Japan, Fascist Italy, and Nazi Germany - are conducting intrigues against each other in North America, specifically in the former U.S., which surrendered to them once they had conquered Eurasia and destroyed the populaces of Africa.
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Producers Ridley Scott and Stewart Mackinnon bring us a startling depiction of an alternate history as imagined by author Philip K. Dick in his best-selling novel; a world in which Nazi Germany and Japan were victorious in World War II. The year is 1962 and the Axis Powers occupy the United States, where fascism rules and the few surviving Jews hide under assumed names.
Genre: Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller
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The Man in the High Castle is an American dystopianalternate history television series produced by Amazon Studios, Scott Free, Headline Pictures and Electric Shepherd Productions. The series is based on the 1962 novel of the same name by American science fiction author Philip K. Dick. The story is an alternate history of the world in which the Axis powers won World War II. The United States has been partitioned into three parts: The Japanese puppet state of the Pacific States of America, which comprises the former United States west of the Rocky Mountains; a Nazi puppet state that comprises the eastern half of the former United States; and a neutral zone that acts as a buffer between the two areas, called the Rocky Mountain States.
The pilot debuted on January 15, 2015[1] and was Amazon's 'most-watched since the original series development program began.' On February 18, 2015, the series was picked up for a ten-episode season.[2] Ten episodes were released November 20, 2015.[3][4]
The central characters are Juliana Crain, Frank Frink, Joe Blake, John Smith and Nobusuke Tagomi, and the series takes place in 1962.
The US divided into three parts: theJapanese Pacific States in the west, theGreater Nazi Reich in the east and theRocky Mountain States (or the Neutral Zone) in the middle, as shown in the pilot episode.[5]
Juliana Crain is a San Francisco woman whose half-sister Trudy has just been killed almost in front of her by the Kempeitai going to arrest her. Just before she dies, she hands Juliana a film reel that contains a series of faux news clips that depict an alternate history in which the Allieswon World War II and Germany and Japan were defeated. The film is entitled The Grasshopper Lies Heavy, and is part of a series of similar newsreels said to have been created by someone referred to as 'The Man in the High Castle'. Juliana believes the newsreel reflects some sort of alternate reality, and that it is part of some kind of larger truth about how the world should be; her boyfriend, Frank Frink (who keeps his Jewish roots hidden in order to avoid extradition and death at the hands of the Nazis), believes that the news reel was created entirely from the imagination of The Man in the High Castle for his own reasons, and has no relation to real-life events. Juliana learns Trudy was carrying the film to Canon City, Colorado, in the Rocky Mountain States, where she was going to meet someone. Juliana decides to travel there in Trudy's place, to find out what her half-sister's mission was. When she arrives in Canon City, she encounters Joe Blake.
Joe Blake is a 27-year-old New Yorker who seeks out the resistance in order to volunteer to help them, purportedly as an effort to continue his patriotic father's legacy. However, he is secretly a double agent working for the Nazis. At the instigation of the resistance, he agrees to drive a truck full of 'coffee-makers' to Canon City from New York, where he will make contact with another resistance member. In Canon City, he discovers what the truck he is driving conceals—a copy of The Grasshopper Lies Heavy. Later, he enters a diner and befriends Juliana Crain, who has been waiting there in hopes of meeting with the person set to meet with Trudy. Meanwhile, in New York, the resistance men Joe Blake met with are seized and tortured to death by the Nazis, headed by Obergruppenführer John Smith. Though the resistance members do not talk, the Nazis already know that the truck dispatched by the resistance is going to Canon City, and why, which hints that it might be a trap.
Nobusuke Tagomi is a high-ranking Japanese official in San Francisco. He meets in secret with Nazi official Rudolph Wegener, who is traveling incognito as Swedish businessman Victore Baynes. Tagomi and Wegener are concerned about the power vacuum that will open up when the Reich's Führer Adolf Hitler dies or is forced to step down due to his worseningParkinson's disease. Wegener explains that Hitler's successor will want to use the Reich's nuclear bombs against Japan in order to gain control over the rest of the former United States from the Japanese. Currently, however, Japan and the Third Reich are engaged in a cold war full of tension but no open warfare, with the Japanese are starting to lag in technology against the Germans.