余战

余战May 1945: the end
of the Secon
d World War
in the Tyrol
ean Alps. S
S man Anton ha
s deserted
and been s
hot. On the run
from his unit,
he swaps his
SS uni
form fo
r that of a
dead Wehrmacht
soldier
and disc
overs a
lonely mountai
n hut. Ha
nnah,
a Jewish woman
, is h
iding here
. She takes
Anton in
and tend
s to hi
s wounds. But
there is
great mistrust
between the
two. To
gether the
y cope
with the ha
rsh ever
yday life
in the r
emote hut. The
y are looke
d after by 1
6-year-old
peasant girl
Charlotte, who
se family pays
Hannah not to
betray them
. And at nigh
t, they
hear figh
ting between t
he Germ
an troops and
Italian part
isans.
Over time,
a cautious
familiarity
develops
between
Anton and Hann
ah - he,
who has done
terrible thing
s in the war,
she, who ha
s lost he
r family and h
as been stru
ggling with fea
r and loneli
ness up here in
the mountai
ns for m
onths. The
y grow close
r. Hanna
h finds
out th
at Anton
was no o
rdinary so
ldier. H
e was in t
he SS, a ma
n of co
nviction,
at least
at first. Brut
al truth
s come to
light. The war
is as goo
d as over, b
ut what kin
d of futu
re awaits the
m? Georg t
urns up at the
hut: He&am
p;#39;s
been looking fo
r Anton, hun
ting him dow
n. He w
as the one who
shot Anton -
his bes
t frien
d. Georg is f
ighting
a battle that
has long bee
n hopel
ess, driven
by hatr
ed and the wil
l to destro
y. And
he also w
ants to kill
Hannah. Hi
gh in t
he moun
tains, the d
ecision is mad
e. The Deser
ter is a st
ory about
war and guilt,
but al
so about help
fulness
and human
ity.　　M
ay 1945: t
he end of th
e Second
World Wa
r in the
Tyrolean Al
ps. SS man Ant
on has dese
rted and bee
n