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IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
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Why this pick
Like The Nasty Girl, it confronts German public memory and complicity through a woman’s determined investigation, balancing personal stakes with an unsentimental challenge to collective silence.
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Why this pick
Its cool, exacting portrait of a respectable German community exposes the cruelty and authoritarian habits beneath civic propriety, echoing the unsettling moral excavation of The Nasty Girl.
03
Why this pick
A young outsider presses through West Germany’s institutional denial of Nazi crimes; its procedural momentum and growing moral outrage closely fit Sonja’s battle against a town determined not to remember.
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Why this pick
This postwar moral reckoning turns a damaged Berlin into a tense confrontation with unpunished guilt, sharing The Nasty Girl’s refusal to let ordinary respectability conceal atrocity.
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Why this pick
A vivid, emotionally direct look at private lives under Nazism, it similarly uses accessible drama and irony-free human detail to push against comforting retrospective narratives.
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01 / THE STORY
A West Germany high school student, Sonja (Lena Stolze as a fictionalized version of Anna Rosmus) wins an essay contest and goes on a trip to Paris. Martin Wegmus begins teaching physics at Sonja's school and one of Sonja's classmates falls in love with him. Almost by luck, Mr. Wegmus and Sonja kiss. The teacher promises to return for her. The next year, she enters the contest again. She chooses "My Town During the Third Reich" from the possible topics. Her research leads her to discover that her picture-perfect town had been intimately involved in the Third Reich and that nearly all of the city's prominent families were members of the National Socialist German Workers Party long before it came to power. As she digs further, local authorities stonewall her efforts.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Sonja Rosenberger
Sonjas Mutter
Zöpfel
Nina
Priester
Priester
Robert
Paul Rosenberger
