Lissy

Streaming video - 1957

Berlin, early 1930s. Lissy (Sonja Sutter), 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 his oppositional ideas—Lissy starts questioning things and makes a difficult and potentially dangerous decision.  This East German classic, created by a young Konrad Wolf (*Stars*, *I Was Nineteen*, *Professor Mamlock*), son of the playwright Friedrich Wolf, prefigures the years o...f Nazi tyranny. The gripping story is based on the novel *Die Versuchung*, by Jewish author F.C. Weiskopf, who was able to flee the Nazis in Czechoslovakia and immigrate to the USA with the help of the League of American Writers in 1939. *“This film brilliantly and accurately impresses us with its subtle depiction of characters, with an eye to both the typical and the contradictory.” - Ulrich Gregor, **Konrad Wolf: Film in der DDR*** more