Bronstein's Children

The read

It runs a compact 1h 30m.

Synopsis

East Berlin, 1973. Eighteen-year-old Hans Bronstein and his girlfriend arrive at his parents’ summer house to find a former Nazi camp Kapo chained there—employed when Hans’s father Arno and his friends were prisoners. Hans demands legal justice; Arno insists on his own retribution. Sister Elle, traumatized into institutionalization, cannot mediate. When Arno forces a confession, Hans frees the prisoner, confronting their irreconcilable pasts.

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Key crew

• Jerzy KawalerowiczDirector

Cast

• Matthias PaulHans Bronstein
• Armin Mueller-StahlArno Bronstein
• Angela WinklerElle Bronstein
• Katharina AbtMartha Lepschitz
• Rolf HoppeGefangener
• Karin EickelbaumRahel Lepschitz
• Buddy EliasGordon Kwart
• Peter MaticHugo Lepschitz
• Alexander MayRotstein