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DEFA Film Studios offers an East German response to the classic suspense films of Alfred Hitchcock, Fritz Lang, and Carol Reed with this tightly wound tale of a bold robbery, and the eyewitness who refuses to finger the culprit. A train station inspector has witnessed a daring robbery. Despite getting a clear view of the perpetrator's face, however, he refuses to turn the man in. When the thief convinces his partner to go after the inspector's daughter, a shocking series of events threaten to make public some of the darkest secrets of the Nazi era.