BBC2 Play of the Week

True Patriot (1x5)

Air date: Oct 19, 1977

Michael York as Dietrich Bonhoeffer in True Patriot by DON SHAW. Dietrich Bonhoeffer , theologian, academic and pastor, was convicted and hanged for being implicated in plots against Hitler. He was hanged in April 1945, one month before the end of the war in Europe.