In Berlin in the early 1940s, romance is forbidden between the young countess who is studying veterinary medicine and a young man she meets at the home of a former professor. But they fall in love. She gets involved in helping Jews escape from the Nazis. All get out of Berlin except the young man. There is a room in her apartment where he can't be seen through the windows and a chest converted into a sofa where she and her brothers played hide-and-seek as children. This real life hide-and-seek game has high stakes. The movie is said to be based on a true story.
Acting
Bisset's trembling restraint, Prochnow's desperate stillness.
Production
The chest-sofa: set design as psychological prison.
Director
Anthony Page
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Based on the real experiences of a German countess who hid her Jewish fiancé in Berlin throughout the war.
The 1984 TV movie format deliberately evokes Holocaust miniseries tropes while subverting them through intimate scale.
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