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Epstein's Night

Screening on Film
Directed by Urs Egger.
With Mario Adorf, Otto Tausig, Bruno Ganz.
Germany/Austria/Switzerland, 2002, 35mm, color, 85 min.
German with English subtitles.

A concentration camp survivor (Adorf), recently released from prison after serving a sentence for murder, discovers that one of his tormentors is serving as a priest in his community. Together with two fellow survivors (Tausig and Ganz), he confronts this figure from his haunted past. Swiss filmmaker Urs Egger presents a very human drama which confronts the complicated moral issues in his characters' lives.

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