A unlucky village railroader causes a trainwreck by accident. In court he is exculpated by a woman who first becomes his lover, later on his wife. But in the end, his guilt is too strong and he faces his due punishment.
Acting
Heidemarie Hatheyer simmers with trapped desperation.
Cinematography
Black-and-white shadows that judge the characters.
Director
Rolf Hansen
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This 1957 Austrian drama captures the era's obsession with Vergangenheitsbewältigung — confronting collective guilt through individual stories. Hudetz's self-destruction mirrors a nation's struggle.
Rolf Hansen adapted this from a play by Austrian writer Rudolf Brunngraber, who specialized in morally compromised working-class protagonists destroyed by their own conscience.
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