Fritz Knochenhauer
1945년 독일 패전 후 폐허가 된 베를린 시내. 강제수용소에 끌려갔던 주자네는 집으로 돌아오게 되지만, 그의 아파트에는 참전군인 외과의 한스가 살고 있다. 어쩔 수 없이 동거를 하게 된 주자네와 한스는 전쟁으로 인한 상처를 보듬으며 이내 서로에게 의지한다. 어느 날, 한스는 함께 참전했던 브뤼크너 대위가 살아 있다는 것을 알게 되지만, 그가 부를 축적하고 행복한 가정을 꾸리고 살고 있는 것에 분노한다. 브뤼크너는 전쟁 중 무고한 폴란드인 100여명의 총살을 명령했던 전범이었던 것. 패전 후 처음 맞는 성탄절, 한스는 진정한 평화를 위해 브뤼크너를 처벌하기로 결심한다. 독일 패전 후 나치즘 청산을 위해 연합군의 검열 하에 만들어진 전후 첫 독일영화. (2017 한국영상자료원 - 1945, 전쟁의 기억)
During his trip to the city, a naïve man from the countryside falls victim to a thief who steals his wallet. Since all his personal documents were in it, he not only looses his money but also his identity. The thief turns out to be a cunning con man, who uses the papers for his criminal schemes. Soon enough, a warrant is issued, and eventually both men – the thief and the innocent guy – are arrested. But since all the red tape of the government causes even more confusion, the odyssey of the victim searching for his lost identity has just started.
Sylvia has succeeded in making her son Robert a minister in the French Republic. His old servent, Gabriel, interrupts the young man during an "erotic" conference with the singer Betty. She's there, because her politically inappropriate songs is about to get her banned from the stage, which the minister would like to prevent. A fight breaks out between Robert and Gabriel and Sylvia, his mother, has to confess to Robert, that Gabriel is actually his father. When the minister once again misbehaves, this time at a ball, his servant and father Gabriel decides that the time has come to slap his son in everyone's presence. Robert is forced to resign and a journalist from the People's Front suggests Gabriel for the post of minister. - The film was classified after the end of the german third empire as a reservation film.
