West Germany,
1960, 102 min
Directed by:
Wolfgang StaudteCinematography:
Georg KrauseComposer:
Werner PohlCast:
Juliette Mayniel, Götz George, Manja Behrens, Hansi Jochmann, Erica Schramm, Horst Niendorf, Fritz Schmiedel, Raidar Müller-Elmau, Wolfgang Reichmann (more)Plots(1)
Panic grips the dignitaries of a one-horse town in the Eifel, when the body of a Wehrmacht soldier is discovered during the construction of a fairground carousel: they all know who the young man was, and why he died... A picture of collective failure in Nazi Germany and collective denial in the Federal Republic. Exceptions confirm the rule. (Locarno Festival)
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