The brother of a high ranking lawyer has killed the husband of a Polish woman, with whom he is having an affair. Can the counsel help his brother without getting himself involved in scandal?
Acting
O.E. Hasse's slow-burn implosion as the compromised counsel.
Direction
Hansen frames guilt like another character in the room.
Writing
Dialogue so polite it cuts—German emotional repression as art.
Director
Rolf Hansen
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made during West Germany's economic miracle, the film quietly interrogates whether prosperity could paper over recent fascist collaboration—Ludwig's moral paralysis mirrors a nation's.
Maximilian Schell, playing the volatile Lorenz, would win Best Actor four years later for Judgment at Nuremberg—another film about German guilt, but with the volume turned way up.
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