Plots(1)
Germany, 1939. A 13-year-old boy from Berlin, Rainer Meister, known as Amigo, finds a man in the junk room of the cellar in the back courtyard. This is Pepp, a political prisoner who has fled a concentration camp. Born into a family of working-class communists, Amigo is well aware of the danger involved in helping Pepp. Nevertheless, help he does; he also makes his two confidants, his younger brother and friend, swear to remain silent. But the friend confides in his father. The latter, a self-satisfied, cowardly Nazi sympathiser, eventually becomes a denunciator. (Berlinale)
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Ernst-Georg Schwill
German Empire
Best movies:
Die schwarze Mühle (1975) (TV movie)
Strange Gardens (2003)
Good Bye Lenin! (2003)
Fred Düren
German Empire
Best movies:
Der Aufenthalt (1983)
I Survived Certain Death (1960)
Solo Sunny (1980)
Heinz Schubert
German Empire
Best movies:
Strongman Ferdinand (1976)
Hitler: A Film from Germany (1977)
Emil and the Detectives (1964)
Erich Franz
German Empire
Nico Turoff
Russian Empire
Best movies:
Les Misérables (1958)
The Devious Path (1928)
The Story of Little Mook (1953)
Angelika Hurwicz
German Empire
Best movies:
Tatort (1970) (series)