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Director Matt Whittaker's new film "Truth & Treason" tells Helmuth Hübener's story, which was released on Friday.

Hübener, a Latter-day Saint teen, resisted the Nazis by distributing leaflets challenging the regime and its lies.

Whittaker's 20-year project aims to inspire audiences with Hübener's peaceful resistance.

SALT LAKE CITY — His resistance movement started quietly. When 16-year-old Helmuth Hübener's (Ewan Horrocks) Jewish friend disappeared at the hands of German Nazis, he began listening to banned shortwave radio stations at low volume after dark.

The foreign news radio provided answers about Hübener's missing friend that he urgently craved. Broadcasters illustrated an oppressive Nazi Germany radically different from the one previously presented to him. He was

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