A dying German magnate invites his youngest son and daughter-in-law home to discuss the future of the family's shipbuilding empire. There, the daughter-in-law stumbles upon a secret of the family ...

The Condemned of Altona. Hating Hitlerism is like opposing ... theater and tired slogans into existential epigrams. This film, adapted freely from the drama, presents even more impressive credentials.

Jean-Paul Sartre is making a valiant attempt to embrace them both. The Condemned of Altona--written a few years before the Critique of Dialectical Reason, Sartre's futile attempt at reconciliation ...