Set in a still young post-war GDR, "Das Zweite Gleis" tells the story of a single father raising his only daughter and how they get by until the father's past catches up to them and sets a painstaking search for truth in motion. Far ahead of its time, the film tells how haunting the truth for most Germans must have been after WWII and that it might have been even more haunting for their children to uncover what their parents desperately tried to forget or to cover up. Story telling and craftsmanship at their highest!

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