Duel with Hitler

As a 25-year-old legal trainee Sebastian Haffner experienced the assumption of power of Hitler in Berlin in 1933. He became a witness of a dramatic upheaval which changed also his life fundamentally. His best friend had to emigrate hastily, the love to a young Jewish woman broke up. Haffner himself could avoid the whirlpool from terror and seduction less and less. His life became a dangerous tightrope walk between adaptation and refusal. He emigrated to England in 1938. Decades after the war he was one of the most famous journalists of the Bonn republic.

• Release date
• January 1, 2012
• Runtime
• 44 min
• Genres
• Documentary
• Director
• Gordian Maugg

Cast

Ludwig Blochberger Sebastian Haffner Michael Mendl Vater

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Sybille Weiser Charlie

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Jannik Büddig Frank Landau

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Andrea Quirbach Mutter Haffner