Descending Angel is a 1990 television film that aired on HBO starring George C. Scott, Diane Lane and Eric Roberts.
Michael is repeatedly accosted on the street by Bercovici, who claims that he is a survivor of the massacre in Romania that Florian took part in.
Looking up Sam Murray, the reporter who wrote old expose' stories on Florian; Michael discovers he had been brutally beaten and crippled by unknown assailants.
Murray snorts that ex-Nazi's had an easy time getting into America after WW2 as long as they claimed they were "Anti-Communist",citing scientist Verner Von Braun as an example.
Hoping to convince her, Michael uses the cover of a church meeting to break into Bishop Dancu's file room to search for evidence; with Sam Murray as getaway driver.