Dein unbekannter Bruder

Introduced by Philip Zengel (in German)

Resistance to the National Socialists flares up in Hamburg in 1935. Men paint “Unite!” on a wall and are arrested by the Gestapo—someone must have betrayed them. The scene plays out in the memory of Arnold Clasen, who is a cinema projectionist after his imprisonment for taking an early stand against the Nazi regime. Now he lives in fear and seclusion and tries not to attract attention. He seeks friendship with his contact, the communist Walter. But can he trust him? Arrests continue to be made in the resistance movement... (FR)

From open acts of resistance to inner conflict and the struggle to find a political stance, this film shifts the “action” to the protagonist’s psyche. (FR)

Philip Zengel is head of public relations at the DEFA Foundation.