Our Time: The Two Sons

(Aus unserer Zeit: Die zwei Söhne)

GDR, 1970, 25 min, b&w
In German; no subtitles
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Synopsis

A farmer's wife in Brandenburg is having strange dreams in which a Soviet prisoner-of-war assumes the face of her son. When her son suddenly turns up, she then has to stop a crime he had been helping plan against Soviet prisoners, tying him up and giving him up to the advancing Soviet army so that he survives the war. 

 

Based on a short story with the same name from Bertold Brecht's collection "Kalendargeschichten."

 

This short film is the first episode of From Our Time.

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