Nahschuss

After seeing this it feels impossible to rate it with anything but 10.

It's written after a true story, the last death sentence executed in and by the socialist DDR (East Germany).

But in reality the film is not primarily about this death sentence but about the "work" of eastern German Stasi and the coldness and brutality with which this regime tried to uphold it's socialist ideas in the face of public opinion, not hesitating to lie, manipulate and kill, ruining lifes in the wake of its political agenda.

The acting is absolutely brilliant, Eidinger plays the role with almost unreal intensity.

The story itself is something that should be known, especially in face of the nowadays often romanticized life in Eastern Germany.

It's not a feel good movie though....but it was not a feel good country either. Or only if you didn't look behind the scenes.

Please watch. It's worth it from beginning to end.

And it's a very relevant movie especially in times of the war in Ukraine and Russian propaganda at this very moment!