Retribution. There's no escape from the past. The movie got hooked. First of all, his drama and acting, and especially the brilliant performances of Mario Adorf and Bruno Gantz. Director Urs Egger, who specializes mainly in the production of films for television, made a film about retribution for crimes and atrocities committed during the Second World War. The picture is about the great friendship and devotion that our heroes carried through all their difficult and difficult life.
During a casual visit to the service in Berlin, our heroes find in a priest the former Hauptsturmführer Giesser, who served in a concentration camp, where our heroes were prisoners, friends, and in which they managed to survive. Then we have a story full of dramatic events. The past returns to the former prisoners, terrible pictures of the past pop up and return them to where hell was.
Pictures on this topic were shot quite a lot. But this picture against their background should not be lost. First of all, because of the great acting. Mario Adorf, play the lead! Brilliantly embodied his hero Johan Epstein. Huge dramatic talent. Throughout his long career, he was given mostly negative roles. Here you can see him in a positive role. Here his role is one great torment of pain, anguish and despair. Bruno Gantz in the role of Adam looks like a real ex-prisoner who, after so many years of meeting with his executioner, feels the same horror and fear as then in a concentration camp, although he took a gun with him but can not shoot it. Annie Girardot played the role of Hannah, the girl with whom Adam had been in love all his life, he carried his love through all the torments and hardships, searching for her to the end and believing that she was alive. The role of Hannah in A. Girardo is small, but what a brilliant one. In her later years, she was as strong an actress as she was in her younger years. A great actress for all time.
The film is very dramatic and long shows the decisive pre-morning scene in the church, when three former prisoners and loyal friends conduct a difficult and painful dialogue with Hauptsturmführer Giesser, hiding under the cassock of the priest. This long scene is the strongest part in the whole picture. The tragedy and pain in it beat over the edge, the strongest emotional component together with the brilliant acting of the actors make it the most tense moment of this story.
This film is very deep, in it such human qualities as love, devotion, friendship are shown brilliantly. First of all, thanks to the chic play of the great actors involved in this life drama.
8 out of 10