As a 25-year-old legal trainee Sebastian Haffner experienced the assumption of power of Hitler in Berlin in 1933. He became a witness of a dramatic upheaval which changed also his life fundamentally. His best friend had to emigrate hastily, the love to a young Jewish woman broke up. Haffner himself could avoid the whirlpool from terror and seduction less and less. His life became a dangerous tightrope walk between adaptation and refusal. He emigrated to England in 1938. Decades after the war he was one of the most famous journalists of the Bonn republic.

Cast

Ludwig Blochberger

Sebastian Haffner

Michael Mendl

Vater

Sybille Weiser

Charlie

Jannik Büddig

Frank Landau

Andrea Quirbach

Mutter Haffner