Drama, based on the book "Retter in der Nacht", in which Marga Spiegel tells her memories: In Westfalia of 1943 Marga Spiegel, her husband and her daughter are about to be deported. Yet westfalian farmers help the jewish family, grant Marga and her daughter refuge under false names and hide her husband.
Der Bewegte Mann is a German comedy about a heterosexual man, Axel, who is thrown out of his girlfriends home for cheating and ends up moving in with a gay man. Axel learns the advantages of living with gay men even though they are attracted to him and when his girlfriend wants him back he must make a tough decision.
Sterling Hayden deu por si cooperando com o Comitê de Atividades Antiamericanas em Hollywood dos anos 40 e 50. Este filme acompanha a inquieta busca do ator por um significado, seu desconforto com o dinheiro fácil de Hollywood e as circunstâncias que o levaram a citar nomes através de encenações.