This sinister tale of an ex-Nazi surgeon hiding in plain sight in 1960s London by the celebrated filmmaker is a forgotten feat of Hitchcockian noir.
But as the newspapers fill with reports of the hunt for Nazi war criminals, his nightmares become increasingly worse ....
That summer, Braun courts a woman, attends classical concerts, buys bacon, dances the twist.
His new neighbours are intrigued by this cultured German gentleman who works as a piano tuner; many are fellow émigrés, who assume that he, like them, came to England to flee Hitler.
Karl Braun arrives as a lodger in Pimlico: hatless, with a bow-tie, greying hair, slight in build.
London, June 1965.
Nothing is more inviting to disclose your secrets than to be told by others of their own ...
This sinister tale of an ex-Nazi surgeon hiding in plain sight in 1960s London by the celebrated filmmaker is a forgotten feat of Hitchcockian noir
