EditDeutschstunde (2019)

Siegfried Lenz' klassiker 'Tysktime' er kongenialt filmatiseret af Christian Schwochow – i forjættende smukke billeder, med Sonja Richter på rollelisten og delvist optaget ved det danske vadehav. Vi starter lige efter Anden Verdenskrig, hvor den unge Siggi Jepsen er sendt til en anstalt for adfærdsvanskelige unge. I tysktimen skal han skrive om 'Pligtens glæder´, men han kan ikke komme i gang med opgaven. Så i stedet begynder han at skrive om sin opvækst i den nordtysk landsby Rugbüll ved den dansk-tyske grænse, hvor hans far er politibetjent og nidkært overvåger, at den lokale kunstner Nansen (bygget over Emil Nolde) overholder nazisternes maleforbud. Ud over sit frapperende familiedrama byder filmen også en på én gang storslået og humoristisk beskrivelse af marsken og dens befolkning midt i krigens vanvid. Filmen er en del af Filmportens program.

Germany, just after the Second World War. Siggi Jepsen (Tom Gronau), a young man in juvenile detention, has to write an essay on "The Joys Of Duty". He can't get started, the paper stays blank. When he has to repeat the exercise the next day, this time in a cell as punishment, he writes his memories like a man possessed. Memories of his father Jens Ole Jepsen (Ulrich Noethen), a police officer who was one of the authorities in a small, north-German village and dedicated himself totally to the duties of office. During the war he had to deliver a ban on painting to his childhood friend, the Expressionist artist Max Ludwig Nansen (Tobias Moretti), imposed on him by the National Socialists. He oversees it meticulously and Siggi (Levi Eisenbla?tter), 11-years-old, is told to help him. But Nansen resists - and likewise builds on Siggi's help, who is like a son for him. The two men's conflict continually escalates - and Siggi stands between them. Fitting in or resistance? This becomes the decisive question for Siggi..