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The Holcroft Covenant (film)
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Directed by	John Frankenheimer
Produced by	Mort Abrahams Edie Landau
Written by	Edward Anhalt George Axelrod
Starring	Michael Caine Victoria Tennant Anthony Andrews
Cinematography	Gerry Fisher
Distributed by	MGM Home Entertainment
Release date(s)	1985
Running time	112 min
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The Holcroft Covenant is a 1985 espionage novel by Robert Ludlum.

Contents 1 Plot 2 Film version 2.1 Cast 3 External links

The novel concerns Noel Holcroft, New York architect—and secretly the son of Heinrich Clausen, chief economic advisor to the Third Reich. At some point in the 70s, Holcroft is contacted by the Grande Banque de Geneve, concerning his father's will and testament. The testament says that in the last half of the war, Clausen found out about the Holocaust. Horrified and desperate to make amends, he and his two friends stole vast amounts of money, from thousands of individual sources throughout the Reich, and funneled them into a secure account in Zurich, Switzerland. Now, if Holcroft will contact the children of the two friends, they can form a group to distribute the funds and alleviate some of the pain of the Holocaust.

Ranged against him in this noble endeavor is the last trace of the Third Reich: the children of Projekt Sonnenkinder. In the dying days of the war, a vast search went out throughout Germany. The children of Germany's finest, screened for physical and psychological frailties, were sent to isolated hamlets and right-wing communities all over the world by airplane and U-Boat. They were raised, provided for, and indoctrinated. Those who showed their promise, the "truth"' of racial superiority, were inducted into the conspiracy by their elders. They have waited thirty years for the funds, to finally take over the world. Their leader, the Tinamou, is the world's deadliest assassin.

As he attempts to carry out what he believes to be the noble, secret mission of his biological father, Holcroft is continuously blindsided as good guys turn out to be bad guys, bad guys turn out to be good guys, and Holcroft, who has no training whatsoever in intelligence, is forced to learn on the job.

In 1985, the book was made into a film of the same name starring Michael Caine and directed by John Frankenheimer. The script was written by Edward Anhalt, George Axelrod, and John Hopkins.

• "Noel Holcroft" ... Michael Caine
• "Johann von Tiebolt/Jonathan Tennyson" ... Anthony Andrews
• "Helden von Tiebolt/Helden Tennyson" ... Victoria Tennant
• "Althene Holcroft" ... Lilli Palmer
• "Erich Kessler/Jürgen Mass" ... Mario Adorf
• "Manfredi" ... Michael Lonsdale
• "Leighton" ... Bernard Hepton
• "Lieutenant Miles" ... Shane Rimmer
• "General Heinrich Clausen" ... Alexander Kerst
• "General Erich Kessler" ... Michael Wolf

• ISBN 0-399-90001-2
• The Holcroft Covenant at the Internet Movie Database