A bureaucrat's ex-lover writes in 'pale blue feminine handwriting'—and 1936 Austria holds its breath.
In October 1936, a high official in the Austrian government receives a letter from a German Jewish woman with whom he had an affair in 1925 asking him to help place an 11-year-old, half Jewish boy in a good Austrian school. Is the child his? Should he help? And above all should he help now, at a time when Nazis are becoming powerful in Austria?
Acting
Friedrich von Thun's face is a masterclass in repressed panic.
Direction
Corti stretches tension across 4 hours like a noose tightening.
Writing
Every pause between words weighs a ton.
Director
Axel Corti
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