My Best Enemy

1938 – a missing Michelangelo painting, the ambitions of a housekeepers "Arian" son and his wealthy Jewish childhood friend who puts on a SS uniform to safe his life and family.

Vienna in the 1930s. Since his childhood, Victor Kaufmann, the son of wealthy Jewish gallery owners, has been close friends with Rudi Smekal. Victor's girlfriend, the perky and attractive Lena, rounds off the inseparable trio that vows to stick together come hell or high water. But with WW2 come drastic changes: The two friends meet again in a concentration camp - the Victor is a prisoner and Rudi an SS officer. Rudi is now engaged to Lena. He does get Victor out of the camp – yet, not to set him free, but to fulfil a mission with him. The Führer wants to obtain a genuine Michelangelo, of which Victor's family owned a forgery before the war. When the plane, on which Rudi is to take Victor to Berlin for interrogation, crashes and only the two former friends survive, a cat-and-mouse game begins…