Alexander Beyer

Summer 1944. Walter Proska is about to return to the Eastern Front when his train is blown up by partisans. Together with a scattered bunch of German soldiers, cut off from the front, he awaits certain death while the commands of his superior Willi Stehauf are becoming more and more senseless and inhuman.

A Belgian Jew (Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, BPM (Beats Per Minute)) feigns being Persian to survive the concentration camps in this French-Russian war drama.

A solo sail from Gibraltar to Ascension turns into a tense refugee rescue mission in this German drama that took home three awards at Berlin.