Decision Before Dawn

Corporal Karl is arrested by US soldiers in the winter of 1944/45 and decides to fight against National Socialism as an agent under the pseudonym ‘Happy’. The film is shot on location in the ruins of West Germany, where the career of Anatole Litvak, who also made decidedly anti-Nazi films, began. An extraordinarily mature work that was ahead of its time with its moral ambiguities about betrayal and heroism. (Raimund Fritz/Florian Widegger)