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Kate Winslet's Oscar-winning role as Hanna Schmitz, a German woman who has an affair with a teenage boy in post-war Germany — only for him to encounter her years later as a defendant at a war crimes trial for her actions as an Auschwitz guard. A film about complicity and the burden of the Nazi generation.
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Teenager Michael Berg begins a secret affair with older woman Hanna Schmitz in post-war Heidelberg — years later he encounters her as a defendant at a war cr...
Set against West Germany's reckoning with its Nazi past in the 1960s and 1970s, the film reflects the real Frankfurt Auschwitz Trials (1963-1965), among the first significant German prosecutions of camp personnel. The...
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