While recuperating in the hospital Hoffi (Berndt Renné) meets Urban (Manfred Karge). Urban has worked as an engineer on projects all over the world, and Hoffi sees him as a source of meaningful employment. Hoffi just spent 1½ years in prison on an assault charge, and nobody wants to hire an ex-con. Hoffi hopes to …
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The Adventures of Werner Holt
Germans have such a complicated relationship with their history. They understand well the atrocities of WWII and the kind of thinking that led to it, but, at the same time, they were the bad guys in that fight and they know it. Beyond the inescapable evil of the top officials and “just doing my job” …
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