by Clarke Fountain
synopsis
Evoking the complexities of life in 1946 postwar Berlin, this detective drama focuses on the efforts of a small group of bank robbers to bring off their heist and avoid punishment for it. Due to the need throughout society to replace active Nazis with politically untainted officials, a large part of the police force working on solving the robbery is composed of amateurs and "civilians." In one ironic scene, the detective interrogating the safecracker reveals that during the war, he was interrogated in the same building by the Nazis for his activities -- as a safecracker.
