In the late 1960s, when the young Jewish businessman’s son Victor Dessauer fails to secure just punishment for the Nazi concentration camp commandant who tortured his parents, he resolves to take the law into his own hands.
Acting
Jeff Wilbusch carries quiet devastation in every scene.
Direction
Roth refuses easy catharsis — brutally honest to the end.
Director
Thomas Roth
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Christian Berkel previously played Wiesenthal in a 2009 TV film, making this his second portrayal of the famous Nazi hunter.
The film deliberately subverts the 'Nazi hunter' genre by showing how institutional justice often failed survivors, forcing impossible choices.
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