Das zweite Gleis

Oct 26 1962 N/A 1h 20m
Drama, Romance, War

In this German drama, Brock, a railroad inspector, witnesses a robbery at a train depot. He recognizes the thief, but turning the man in would mean acknowledging he knows him, thus revealing his own complicity with the Nazi war machine. When Brock’s daughter and her boyfriend begin to question him about the incident, will the secret he’s kept for nearly 20 years finally be exposed?

Plot

An attempted robbery from a railway freight wagon takes place in a marshaling yard in East Germany. The Yard Supervisor, Brock recognises the thief as someone he has good reason to hate from the wartime. But identifying him would bring all sorts of ghosts out to haunt him, so he denies knowing the man. Meanwhile his daughter and her boyfriend get curious about the past and when they investigate, they expose a history that is explosive. Can anyone put the genie back in the bottle?

Written by

Günter Kunert, Joachim Kunert

Directed by

Joachim Kunert

Cast

Albert Hetterle, Annekathrin Bürger, Horst Jonischkan

Crew

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Production Countries

Germany, East Germany

Production Companies

DEFA

Languages

Deutsch

Awards

N/A

Scores
# of Votes
156
Average Rating
7.3 out of 10
Metascore
NA
Popularity
NA