The director who haunted German cinema finally gets his close-up.
Direction
Endriss crafts elegy from fragments — fitting for Wicki's ghost.
Acting
Schell and Brandauer speak like men who knew the weight.
Director
Elisabeth Endriss
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Wicki was the first German director nominated for Best Foreign Language Film twice — then couldn't get financing for decades.
His 1959 Die Brücke was shown in West German schools for generations, making him famous to students and invisible to critics.
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