TV Show Details
Air Date:January 24th, 1971
Last Air Date:January 28th, 1971
Status:Ended
Original Language:German
Production Companies:Sender Freies Berlin
Cast & Crew
A
Andreas Poliza
as Siggi Jepsen - 10 Jahre
The German Lesson (1971)
TV Show
Miniseries
Plot
Siggi Jepsen, an inmate at the juvenile detention center, is assigned to write an essay in the 1950s. Topic: the joys of duty. He immediately thinks of his own father. As a police sergeant, his father took his official duties more than seriously during the Nazi regime. Siggi becomes increasingly pensive. He writes about his father, who even sacrifices his friendship with an old friend for the sake of his sense of duty. Siggi had protected this friend as a child, and now has to serve time for it…
