Jonas (1957)
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Robert Graf, Elisabeth Bohaty, Dieter Eppler, Willy Reichmann
A printing-press worker’s discovery of a friend’s hat reawakens guilt from the war and turns his city into a maze of paranoia.
The story
Jonas, a printing-press worker living in a large city, is troubled by fears and guilt. His fragile sense of security is shaken when he finds a hat bearing the initials of a friend he left behind in the detention camp he escaped from during the war. The discovery intensifies his guilt into paranoia, and inner voices drive him to wander through a city that seems to close in around him. His girlfriend, Nanni, cannot free him from the conflict between his past and present.
Full plot (contains spoilers)
It is a portrait of Jonas, a printing-press worker who lives in a large city, afflicted by fears and guilt. When he finds a hat bearing the initials of a friend he left behind in the detention camp he escaped from during the war, his guilt turns into paranoia. Driven by inner voices, Jonas wanders lost through the city, which seems to be trapping him; not even his girlfriend, Nanni, can free him from the conflict between past and present.
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