I Is Another

by Felix Randau

A psychological drama about the controversial “Himmler's Therapist” with Claes Bang in a morally complex role.

Autumn 1952: Committed journalist Hedda and her husband Winfried ambush Felix Kersten, former massage therapist to SS Reich Leader Himmler, on a train to Oslo. Kersten is said to have helped thousands of concentration camp prisoners to freedom during the Nazi era—at least according to his own account. But Hedda has her doubts. She considers Kersten a mythmaker who is using fabricated heroic deeds to put himself in the running for the Nobel Peace Prize. What begins as an interview develops into a tense, psychological cat-and-mouse game: Kersten, rhetorically brilliant and armed with alleged evidence, encounters a stubborn opponent who relentlessly confronts him with contradictions. As the conversation comes to a head, the announcement of the Nobel Peace Prize winner draws ever closer....

Genre / Language
Drama / German
Original title
Ich ist ein anderer
directed by
Felix Randau (NORTHERN STAR)
director of photography
Sebastian Thaler
produced by
ostlicht filmproduktion in co-production with Wega Film
Cast
  • Claes Bang (THE SQUARE, BAD SISTERS, DRACULA, THE NORTHMAN)
  • Valerie Pachner (THE GROUND BENAETH MY FEET)
  • Susanne Wuest (GOODNIGHT MOMMY)
  • Timocin Ziegler
  • Martin Müller
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