A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Featuring:
Horst Schulze, Marion van de Kamp, Hannjo Hasse
Written by:
Walter Jupé
Friedrich Karl Kaul
Wolfgang Luderer
Directed by:
Wolfgang Luderer
Release Date:
June 10, 1966
Original Title:
Lebende Ware
Genres:
Drama | War
Production Companies:
DEFA
Production Countries:
East Germany | Germany
Ratings / Certifications:
N/A
Runtime: 97
In 1944, SS-Obersturmbannführer Becher arrives in Budapest in order to obtain material for the Waffen-SS. At the same time, he starts to gather private property by offering an insidious choice to the corporation′s Jewish majority shareholder, Dr. Chorin: Either Chorin assigns the company to Becker "on his own free will" – thereby obtaining the permission to travel abroad - or he his family will end up in an extermination camp.
About the business man Kurt Andreas Becher, who is taking the liberty to change a few details of his life history. In 1944, SS-Obersturmbannführer Becher arrives in Budapest in order to obtain material for the Waffen-SS. At the sa...
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