余战

余战May 1945: the end of
the Second Wo
rld War
in the T
yrolean Alps. S
S man Anton ha
s deser
ted and been sh
ot. On the run
from h
is unit, he sw
aps his SS unif
orm for that o
f a dead Weh
rmacht soldie
r and dis
covers a lon
ely mountain
hut. Hannah,
a Jewish w
oman,
is hiding he
re. She takes
Anton i
n and t
ends to
his woun
ds. But ther
e is great mist
rust be
tween the
two. Togeth
er they cope wi
th the har
sh everyday li
fe in the
remote hut
. They ar
e looked afte
r by 16-ye
ar-old peasa
nt girl Charlo
tte, whose fam
ily pays
Hannah not t
o betray the
m. And at night
, they hea
r fighti
ng betw
een the G
erman tr
oops an
d Italia
n partisa
ns. Over time,
a cautious
familiarity de
velops between
Anton an
d Hanna
h - he, who
has done terr
ible things in
the wa
r, she,
who has lost
her famil
y and has been
struggling wi
th fear and l
onelines
s up here in
the mountains f
or months.
They gr
ow closer. H
annah f
inds out that
Anton was n
o ordinary sold
ier. He was
in the SS
, a man of con
viction, at l
east at first.
Brutal truths
come to light.
The war i
s as good as ov
er, but wha
t kind of fu
ture aw
aits the
m? Georg
turns up at t
he hut: H
e's bee
n lookin
g for An
ton, hunt
ing him down. H
e was t
he one who
shot Anton - hi
s best fri
end. Georg
is fighting
a battle th
at has long bee
n hopeless, d
riven by h
atred and t
he will to des
troy. An
d he als
o wants to
kill Hannah.
High in the m
ountain
s, the deci
sion is
made. The Deser
ter is a
story about wa
r and guilt,
but als
o about
helpfulness an
d humani
ty.　　May
1945: t
he end of th
e Second Worl
d War in
the Tyro
lean Alps
. SS man
Anton has deser
ted and
been