Genre: Romance, Drama, World War II, Psychodrama, Courtroom, Love, Doctor
Plot: This landmark German film examines an entire nation's attempts at atonement for the atrocities carried out prior to and during the Second World War. Amid the rubble of Berlin a young doctor lives a tortured existence. He suffers from hallucinations due to the time he spent in a death camp, witnessing the mass exterminations committed by the Nazi regime. When he meets his former captain, who ordered these killings, and who has now settled down to raise a family, the doctor plans to kill him. But then he wonders if this is the morally correct choice, after all.
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