Turncoat (2020)★ 6.8/10

DE · 43 min · April 1, 2020 · 1 seasons

Drama
History
War

Written by: Florian Gallenberger, Bernd Lange, Siegfried Lenz

1944. Walter Proska is a young Wehrmacht soldier who begins to question the purpose of the war, who the real enemy is and whether his real duty should be to his fatherland or his own conscience.

Original title

Turncoat

Storyline

Directed by Academy Award-winner Florian Gallenberger from Sigefried Lenz's international bestseller, "Der Überläufer" is set in the summer of 1944. German soldier Walter Proska is about to return to the Eastern Front when his train is blown up by his love interest, the partisan Wanda. Together with a scattered bunch of fellow soldiers, cut off from the front, he awaits certain death while his commanding officer, Willi Stehauf, issues ever more senseless and inhumane orders. Proska's encounter with a young Polish woman fighting as a partisan and his friendship with his comrade Kürschner increasingly makes him doubt his oath of allegiance. As the Red Army draws closer, Proska becomes a prisoner of war and the only way he can save himself is by defecting to the enemy.

Rating

6.8 / 10 · 1,932

Companies

Dreamtool Entertainment, Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR), ARD Degeto Film, Südwestrundfunk (SWR), ARD TV, Warrior Bear Productions, American Movie Classics (AMC), Danmarks Radio (DR), Das Erste, Epic Drama, Filmin, First HDTV, MHz Networks, Mediasoft Films, Nederlandse Publieke Omroep (NPO), Norsk Rikskringkasting (NRK), Pandastorm Pictures, Rádio e Televisão de Portugal (RTP), Sveriges Television (SVT), Viasat World, Walter Presents, Yleisradio (YLE)

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