Coquitlam Public Library

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Originally produced by DEFA Film Library in 1970

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After officials banned The Russians Are Coming, Heiner Carow decided to use footage from the banned film as flashbacks in a new film. A few years after its release, however, the director vehemently distanced himself from its conformity to the party line.. G?nter Walcher is an average, apolitical, working-class West German citizen caught in a moral conflict. He is offered a promotion to division head?on the condition that he finds a reason for Zacharias, the work council chairman and a communist, to get fired. Walcher thinks back on another situation where he was lead to do something he believed to be wrong: when he was a member of the Hilter Youth, he became responsible for someone's death

live action