My Good Hans

In the spring of 1941, just before Germany and the Soviet Union go to war, Hitler and Stalin sign an economic pact to exchange specialist scientists and raw materials. In this period, the German scientist Hans is working with three compatriots in a Russian glass factory making lenses. Frustration about the stagnating process of development, homesickness and mutual tensions affect the Germans. In the meantime, Hans makes friends with a Russian colleague, despite their initial mutual distrust. When the German causes an explosion on the factory floor in which Russian workers die, Hans’ fate is in the hands of his new friend.
Just as in Mindadze’s Innocent Saturday (2011, about the nuclear disaster at Chernobyl), here too the disaster only happens after the film is in full swing. However pent-up emotions appear on the surface right from the start in this historic drama based on true events.