The Second Track
(Das Zweite Gleis)
Screening on Film
Directed by Joachim Kunert.
With Albert Hetterle, Annekathrin Bürger, Horst Jonischkan.
East Germany, 1962, 35mm, black & white, 80 min.
German with English subtitles.
With Albert Hetterle, Annekathrin Bürger, Horst Jonischkan.
East Germany, 1962, 35mm, black & white, 80 min.
German with English subtitles.
Station Inspector Brock is witness to a robbery but, guilt-ridden by his failure to stand up to the Nazi regime years ago, he fails to report one of the culprits. The Second Track is the only East German film to deal with the sensitive subject of former Nazis leading normal lives in the GDR.
