

While searching for her grandmother, the director comes across the story of three brothers who are torn between the fronts of political ideologies in the Third Reich and divided Germany: "the third brother" is the filmmaker's grandfather, who, in confronting her father, tries to overcome decades of speechlessness and, in the process, to understand where in the past her father's sense of family fell by the wayside.
Kathrin Jahrreiß
Self
Lead“A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Kathrin Jahrreiß's vision lands with breathtaking precision.”
“Every frame feels alive. Der dritte Bruder is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.”