The Turncoat
Genre: Drama, History, War
Actor: Jannis Niewöhner, Malgorzata Mikolajczak, Sebastian Urzendowsky
Director: Florian Gallenberger
Country: Germany
Episode: 4/4 eps
Duration: 173
Release: 2020
IMDb: 6.8
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. —Dreamtool Entertainment
