Jadup and Boel

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Jadup and Boel

Release Date: May 12, 1988

Year	:	1988
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Genres	:	Drama
Production Companies	:	DEFA
Director	:	Rainer Simon
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Writers	:	Rainer Simon, Paul Kanut Schäfer
RunTime	:	100 mins.

In a small town, everyone has tried to forget what happened shortly after WWII. That is, until a stranger finds a book that Jadup (Kurt Böwe) gave to the young refugee Boel (Katrin Knappe), who resettled in the town over 30 years ago. Painful memories about Boel and the post-war period begin to surface and shake up the whole town. Boel vanished back then and nobody knew why. Word spread about a rape and some tried to blame a Russian soldier. Jadup, the town's respected and popular mayor, remembers, though, how he mistrusted Boel and did not help her through this difficult time; HE didn't even notice THAT Boel loved him. Jadup's confrontation with the past gives him a new, critical view of his current situation and surroundings.