A two-part television version of the novel by SIEGFRIED LENZ
1: Siggi Jepsen is a young art thief, an inmate in a post-war juvenile detention centre in Germany. His crime is stealing paintings; but only those of an expressionist painter named Max Nansen. Why he did it is connected with the Nazi rule during the war.
Siggi's father, Jens, is the policeman of a village in Schleswig-Holstein where the Nazis have banned Max from painting, and Jens is the end of the chain of enforcement. The two men had gone to school together in the same village, and Max had once rescued Jens from drowning. But Jens has a rigid sense of duty which the author uses to symbolise the whole German dilemma, aggravated in this case by the return of his elder son, who has deserted from the German Army, after a self-inflicted wound.
Directed by PETER BEAUVAIS
Dubbing director MICHAEL BAKEWELL