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Alle Menschen werden Brüder (1973)

109 min · Drama

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Directors

Alfred Vohrer

Cast

Harald Leipnitz, Doris Kunstmann, Rainer von Artenfels, Klaus Schwarzkopf, Herbert Fleischmann, Elisabeth Volkmann, Alf Marholm, Michel Jacot, Konrad Georg, Christiane Maybach, Ingrid van Bergen, Manfred Seipold, Heinz Baumann, Alfred Balthoff, Alexander Golling, Achim Hammer, Edith Schultze-Westrum, Hilde Brand, Ingeborg Lapsien, Roberto Blanco, Herta Worell

Two estranged writer brothers are drawn back into conflict by a woman's apparent murder or suicide attempt.

The story

During the war and postwar years, two brothers who are both writers become mortal enemies. In the aftermath of the war, one brother—described as the more talented—is banned from writing and protects former Nazis from discovery. The other runs a strip club with Boris Minski, a Jewish associate, while unsuccessfully trying to establish himself as a writer. Their paths cross again when a woman is involved in what appears to be a murder or suicide attempt, drawing the brothers into a sinister struggle for survival.

Full plot (contains spoilers)

Two brothers, both writers, become mortal enemies during the war and postwar years. After the war, the more talented brother is banned from writing and protects former Nazis from being discovered, while the other runs a strip club with the Jew Boris Minski and unsuccessfully tries to make it as a writer. An apparent murder or suicide attempt involving a woman causes their paths to cross again and plunges them into a sinister fight for life and death.

Genres

Drama

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