A traffic stop in Germany. A marriage built on lies. The past doesn't stay buried.
Jan and Meg Citron are on holiday in Germany. Their car is stopped by the police. A simple traffic offence? But their seemingly innocent past is ripped open and life will never be the same again.
Acting
Paul Rogers and Joyce Redman devastate as complicit spouses.
Direction
Kenneth Ives traps you in bureaucratic terror.
Writing
Every polite exchange drips with unspoken atrocity.
Director
Kenneth Ives
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made for British television in 1980, this reflects ongoing reckoning with Nazi collaboration that mainstream cinema rarely touched so directly.
The title refers not to Jan's wartime role but to the machinery of justice itself — everyone becomes executioner.
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