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Berlin 1945.
The night before Adolf Hitler's suicide the Red Army approaches Berlin and war is
shaking the city. In the top floor of a Berlin flat a woman, Anna, is lying on
her bed. From her flat the rubble on the street and the ruins can be seen.
Anna's husband was a shopkeeper whom the Nazis have killed 2 years ago because he
has helped Jews to escape from the Gestapo. Still people like Grete come in or call in for help in these times.
An university professor named Katz knows
Rohde and
must identify him for
the Nazis in order to spare his own life - if the Nazis keep their promise.
But Katz cannot live with the thought of betraying a friend and kills himself
without giving away the information.
Having escaped from a concentration camp, Rohde seeks a place to hide from
the Gestapo and finds it in Anna's flat. She reluctantly agrees to hide him
for a night and gets him a uniform so that he can pose as a Nazi, Schmidt.
And she pretends to be his friend with whom he has spent a night in bed.
Realizing that the war is at its end and being lost, Schmidt, the true Nazi, now
poses as a Jew and tries to fool the Russians into believing that Rohde was
a Nazi. Though the Russians do not go for this, catch Schmidt in contradicting
himself and finally shoot him, Rhode can convince them that he his not the Nazi
he looks, but a Jew who was hiding from the Gestapo. But he is not better of
in their hands as he was before under the Nazis.
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