Overview

Combining archival footage with dramatized episodes based on real accounts, this film examines everyday life in Nazi Germany through the experiences of ordinary citizens. Directed by Eberhard Itzenplitz and Erwin Leiser, it traces how conformity, opportunism, fear, and routine compromise drew “ordinary” men and women into complicity with the regime, revealing the banality of evil at work in daily life.

Top Cast

Armin Mueller-Stahl

Gottfried John

Brocke

Karin Baal

Elisabeth Kurz

F

Friedrich W. Bauschulte

Horst Bollmann

Strobel

Felix von Manteuffel

L

Lisi Mangold

T

Therese Lohner

Ellen Kurz

Edith Teichmann

Regina Lemnitz

I

Ilsemarie Schnering