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Your Unknown Brother
(Dein unbekannter Bruder)

Screening on Film
Directed by Ulrich Weiss.
With Uwe Kockisch, Michael Gwisdek, Jenny Gröllmann.
East Germany, 1982, 35mm, color, 108 min.
German with English subtitles.

Returning from a Nazi camp for political prisoners in 1935, Arnold Clasen is ambivalent about reestablishing contact with his resistance group, afraid of being watched. This milestone film both sustains and breaks with the antifascist traditions of East German cinema.

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