The Passenger – Welcome to Germany (1988)

Release Date: 1988-05-04
Runtime: 1h 38min
Production Company: Von Vietinghoff Filmproduktion
Production Country: Germany, Switzerland, United Kingdom
Director: Thomas Brasch

An American filmmaker travels to modern day Berlin to make a film based on a real-life incident from 1942 in which 13 Jewish prisoners from a concentration camp were promised freedom if they appeared in a German propaganda film. Unfortunately, the Germans lied. The psychological process undergone by the modern filmmaker while shooting the story provides the basis of this arty and challenging film.