In Germany, an old man attacks another old man and is arrested. The attacker refuses to speak. A female lawyer is appointed to him. She discovers that the attacker has numbers tattooed on his arm and the attacked man was a German officer.
Acting
Schell's wordless suffering could level buildings.
Writing
Refuses easy answers about who deserves justice.
Director
Fons Rademakers
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Maximilian Schell based his performance on actual Holocaust survivors he interviewed, many of whom never spoke of their experiences.
Released months before the Berlin Wall fell, the film captures West Germany's struggle to prosecute aging Nazis while the world changed around them.
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