Das zweite Gleis (1962)

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Country: East Germany
Genres: Drama, Romance, War
Release: 1962-10-26
Director: Joachim Kunert
Writers: Günter Kunert , Joachim Kunert
Language: German
Stars: Albert Hetterle , Annekathrin Bürger , Horst Jonischkan , Walter Richter-Reinick , Helga Göring , Erik S. Klein , Johanna Clas , Brigitte Lindenberg , Paul Berndt , Walter E. Fuß
Runtime: 80 min
Awards: N/A
AKA: Второй путь , The Second Track (United States of America) , Das zweite Gleis , Drugi tor (Poland) , A második vágány (Hungary) , Das zweite Gleis , Druhá kolej
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?
IMDB:tt0056727