Eiszeit

Eiszeit

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Status

Released

Release Date

Aug 15, 1975

Runtime

1h 54m

Genres

Drama

Original Title

Eiszeit

Director

Peter Zadek

Description

Based on a very successful play of the same name by Tankred Dorst, this film tells a story about Norwegian author Knut Hamsun (here played by O.E. Hasse), a Nobel prizewinner for literature who was notorious for having collaborated with the Nazi regime. After the war, rather than hand him over for prosecution, he was sent to a retirement home. A young man, bitter about the war, tracks him down and begins to harass him in various ways. The author handles everything that comes to him with remarkable dignity, which eventually removes some of the taint from his actions.