The Turncoat

Original title: Der Überläufer

• Drama
• War & Politics

Summer 1944. Walter Proska is about to return to the Eastern Front when his train is blown up by partisans. Together with a scattered bunch of German soldiers, cut off from the front, he awaits certain death while the commands of his superior Willi Stehauf are becoming more and more senseless and inhuman.

Created by

Florian Gallenberger

First aired

8 April 2020

Network

Das Erste, NDR Fernsehen, SWR Fernsehen