I have to do something about that

"I have to do something about that." This statement, later used as the title of Tina Leisch´s film portrait of resistance fighter Helga Zimmermann, is spoken by the protagonist somewhat abruptly and in passing as she explains a photograph taken in the early forties for the interviewer. It shows Russian prisoners of war being led away by soldiers of the German army. One of them, a woman dressed in civilian clothes, is the focus of Zimmermann´s attention: At the time she was told by her brother that when the Germans find partisans, they hang them, even the women. "The...