Hermann Lause

Germany during the Olympic Games summer of 1936. A boy’s life, torn between the love for his Jewish grandmother and his fancy for the Hitler Youth.Read More »

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The destructive nature of a rising Nazi menace is the subtext in this drama about a young man in Germany in the late ’20s. While he enjoys a certain immunity from hard times because of a rich friend and female companionship, he is not blind. He sees mounting injustices in the society around him and cannot always reconcile them with his own views. After his love life gets a jolt and he loses his job, he debates whether or not to work for a Nazi newspaper as the future seems to look worse each day.Read More »