Release Date
15 Aug, 1975
Runtime
01:54: (HH:MM)
Synopsis
Based on a very successful play of the same name by Tankred Dorst, this film tells a story about Norwegian author Knut Hamsun (here played by O.E. Hasse), a Nobel prizewinner for literature who was notorious for having collaborated with the Nazi regime. After the war, rather than hand him over for prosecution, he was sent to a retirement home. A young man, bitter about the war, tracks him down and begins to harass him in various ways. The author handles everything that comes to him with remarkable dignity, which eventually removes some of the taint from his actions.
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O.E. Hasse
Hannelore Hoger
Walter Schmidinger
Ulrich Wildgruber
Helmut Qualtinger
Rosel Zech
Heinz Bennent
Hermann Lause
Diether Krebs
Peter Zadek