Marriage in the Shadows

Set during the rise of the Nazi regime Elisabeth Maurer and Hans Wieland enjoy successful careers as actors in Berlin Confident in her career Elisabeth who is Jewish ignores the advice of a colleague to leave Germany in the face of increasing antiSemitism Believing that he can protect her if she becomes his wife Hans convinces Elisabeth to marry him In the following years as Hanss career thrives Elisabeth awaits the end of the Nazi terror which bars her from public life When the situation worsens in 1938 with the Kristallnacht pogrom Elisabeth decides to leave the country but Hans who still believes he can protect her convinces her to stay with him