Each of us is an individual; each of us has individual responsibility for our own actions. Each of us is also a member of a family, of families; each of us is a citizen of a state, a member of a nation. Can we, must we, take responsibility for them, for their actions too? In twentieth century Europe, perhaps in no other country such questions had the resonance as they have had in Germany.
'The Dark Room' tells the story of three ordinary twentieth-century Germans: Helmut, a young photographer in Berlin in the 30s; Lore, a twelve year old girl who in 1945 guides her young siblings across the country; and half-a-century later, Micha, a young teacher, struggling to deal with the past of his family and his country.
