Lissy (movie)
- User score: 6.3
- Production country: East Germany
- Producer: Konrad Wolf
- Production companies: DEFA
- Genre: Drama
- Release date: 5/29/1957
- Run time: 89 min.
Movie description
Berlin, early 1930s. Lissy, a young woman raised in a socialist working-class family, marries a clerk who promises her a better life. During the depression, however, he gets fired and can’t find a new job. Desperate for companionship and money, he falls for Nazi propaganda and joins the Storm Troopers. Lissy's brother, who for a time sympathized with the communists, now also wears the SA uniform. When he is killed by the Nazis—because of hisoppositional ideas—Lissy starts questioning things and makes a difficult and potentially dangerous decision.