Vera von Schalburg is a German prostitute working in Nazi Germany. In 1938, one year before the outbreak of World War II, Schalburg is arrested by the Berlin police. She is offered to work as a spy for the Abwehr, the German military intelligence service, instead of facing jail time. Completely unaware of the secret war preparations being conducted by her government, and unwilling to leave her teenage son who later joins the Hitler Youth, she accepts the offer.
Acting
Niehaus carries crushing helplessness in every scene.
Production
Grim 1938 Berlin feels authentically suffocating.
Writing
Tragic irony of a pawn who thinks she's choosing.
Director
Miguel Alexandre
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