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Lissy

Lissy

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Status

Released

Release Date

May 29, 1957

Runtime

1h 29m

Genres

Drama

User Score

63%

Original Title

Lissy

Production Companies

DEFA

Director

Konrad Wolf

Description

Berlin, early 1930s. Lissy, a young woman raised in a socialist working-class family, marries a clerk who promises her a better life. During the depression, however, he gets fired and can’t find a new job. Desperate for companionship and money, he falls for Nazi propaganda and joins the Storm Troopers. Lissy's brother, who for a time sympathized with the communists, now also wears the SA uniform. When he is killed by the Nazis—because of hisoppositional ideas—Lissy starts questioning things and makes a difficult and potentially dangerous decision.