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Bookmark this pageHeld for Questioning (1983)
Director: Frank Beyer
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
Beyer's film is a study of prison life and of personality. A young German soldier is imprisoned after the end of the war in 1945: is he wittingly or unwittingly a war criminal? Are the other inmates more dangerous than the guards? Never less than interesting, the film is flawed by a central inconsistency of approach: never quite a study of the minutiae and banality of the day-to-day existence of the prisoner, it also never fully explores the possibilities of a potentially Kafka-esque situation.Author: SM
Cast & crew
Director: Frank Beyer
Cast: Sylvester Groth, Fred Düren, Klaus Piontek, Matthias Günther, Horst Hiemer full cast
Duration: 102 mins
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