An American filmmaker travels to modern day Berlin to make a film based on a real-life incident from 1942 in which 13 Jewish prisoners from a concentration camp were promised freedom if they appeared in a German propaganda film. Unfortunately, the Germans lied. The psychological process undergone by the modern filmmaker while shooting the story provides the basis of this arty and challenging film.
Acting
Tony Curtis's final dramatic role, unexpectedly raw
Direction
Brasch blurs past and present until you can't breathe
Writing
Script interrogates its own existence as Holocaust cinema
Director
Thomas Brasch
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Curtis took this role specifically to escape his 'Some Like It Hot' image, working for scale in Berlin.
Brasch was blacklisted by East German authorities; this was his first West German production, making the film's meditation on artistic freedom deeply personal.
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