The Infiltrator
Written by	Yaron Svoray & Nick Taylor (book In Hitler's Shadow), Robert J. Avrech & Guy Andrews (story), Guy Andrews (teleplay)
Directed by	John Mackenzie
Starring	Oliver Platt Arliss Howard Tony Haygarth Alan King Julian Glover
Music by	Hal Lindes
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
Production
Cinematography	Mick Coulter
Editor	Graham Walker
Running time	92 minutes
Production company	HBO Showcase
Original release
Release	June 24, 1995 (1995-06-24)

The Infiltrator is a 1995 American thriller drama film directed by John Mackenzie based on the book In Hitler's Shadow: An Israeli's Journey Inside Germany's Neo-Nazi Movement by Yaron Svoray and Nick Taylor about an Israeli freelance journalist who travels to Germany in the early 1990s and uncovers a dangerously pervasive underground Neo-Nazi faction with the intent to bring Nazism back to the forefront in Germany.^[1][2] It stars Oliver Platt, Arliss Howard, Tony Haygarth, Julian Glover and Michael Byrne.^[3]

The film was released on June 24, 1995 on HBO.^[4] It was final film under HBO Showcase banner before it was renamed to HBO NYC Productions in 1996.

Cast

• Oliver Platt as Yaron Svoray
• Arliss Howard as Ricky Eaton
• Tony Haygarth as Gunther Fischer
• Michael Byrne as Dieter Creutz
• Julian Glover as Bielert
• Alex Kingston as Anna

Original airing

The film originally aired on HBO on June 24, 1995.

Reception

Variety praised the high quality of performances and production values of the film and called it "powerful TV, all the more unsettling for reminding us that right-wing extremism didn’t die with Hitler."^[4]