Bataclan #4
In the closing days of World War II, a German soldier swaps identities with a dead comrade to survive, only to spend years imprisoned in Russia after the war. Upon his release, he returns to find his wife remarried and raising a daughter with another man. "Les heures chaudes" follows Ottmar as he grapples with his past and the quiet, painful choice to walk away, honoring the life he can no longer claim. A poignant, understated story from 1967, rendered in stark, expressive lines with typeset lettering.
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In the closing days of World War II, a German soldier exchanges uniforms and papers with a dead soldier to avoid being shot. He is captured and spends years after the war as a prisoner in Russia. When he is released, he looks up his wife, who he had treated badly during the war. But he had been reported killed during the war and he discovers that she is happily married to another man with whom she has had a daughter. Now a changed man, Ottmar follows his conscious and decides not to disrupt their lives by telling them that he is still alive.
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