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[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2019
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (98 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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Based on Hermann Kant's autobiographical novel, the acclaimed film HELD FOR QUESTIONING raises existential questions about crime and punishment, as well as obedience and responsibility. In the fall of 1945, a few months after the end of WWII, 19-year-old German POW Mark Niebuhr (Sylvester Groth, "Inglourious Basterds") arrives with other prisoners at a train station near Warsaw. When a Polish woman accuses him of being the Nazi officer who killed her daughter, Mark is thrown into a Kafkaesque nightmare of accusations and persecution--first in solitary confinement, then among hostile Polish prisoners, and finally with German Nazis who assume he is a spy planted by the Poles. East Germany’s official submission for the **Academy Awards**. Nominated for a Golden Lion at the **Venice Film Festival**
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Fred Düren, Matthias Günther, Sylvester Groth
Originally produced by DEFA Film Library in 1982
Mode of access: World Wide Web
In English