Das Urteil

From Paul Hengge With Ralph Hönicke, Udo Rau Director: Edith Ehrhardt Set design: María Martínez Peña "A tunnel into the darkness of the German past, but at the end of which there is light" (FAZ)

Jewish antiquarian Rabinovicz is waiting for his flight to Hamburg to take off, where he is due to testify in a murder trial. Although the plane is not fully booked, someone anonymously gives him a valuable book so that he will give up his seat to someone else. And then there is this mysterious stranger, a German, who engages him in a conversation that soon revolves around the difficulties in the search for truth and justice. Rabinovicz becomes increasingly insecure.

[...] "This story is a covert interrogation, to which its disturbing ending lends the glow of intimacy, and an invisible tribunal before which any man could be called; it is [...] the procreation of an elective affinity between two men in the wild speeches of one night." (FAZ)