Storyline

Frustrated by his inability to help an African-American patient who hates whites, a psychiatrist (Peter Falk) asks his superior (Sidney Poitier) to release him from the case. The superior relates a case from his own past during World War II when he treated a young Nazi (Bobby Darin) who despised blacks. Explaining the tragic results of the case, the older psychiatrist encourages his younger colleague not to be swayed by the patient's attitude, to remain objective and to stick with his treatment.

Plot Keywords

doctor, patient, psychiatrist, medic, barmaid, brooding, melodramatic, intense, uneasy, hospital, tavern, prison, race relations, mental illness, prisoners of war, psychoanalysis, anti-semitism, world war ii, transformation, fall, 1940s

Short Review

A genuine psychological drama, this is a film that takes place almost entirely in therapy sessions. It takes a Freudian approach to psychological trauma ...

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