Synopsis: This landmark German film examines an entire nation's attempts at atonement for the atrocities carried out prior to and during the Second World War. Amid the rubble of Berlin a young doctor lives a tortured existence. He suffers from hallucinations due to the time he spent in a death camp,... This landmark German film examines an entire nation's attempts at atonement for the atrocities carried out prior to and during the Second World War. Amid the rubble of Berlin a young doctor lives a tortured existence. He suffers from hallucinations due to the time he spent in a death camp, witnessing the mass exterminations committed by the Nazi regime. When he meets his former captain, who ordered these killings, and who has now settled down to raise a family, the doctor plans to kill him. But then he wonders if this is the morally correct choice, after all. [More]