Spolužiak
1978 · Drama · TV Movie
Based on the paradoxical life story of a small-time Viennese postman, a former classmate of the "great" Hermann Göring, this television drama depicts the difficult position of the so-called "little man," first under the Nazi regime and later in the postwar years, when fascist tendencies continued to survive.
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