In a Glass Cage

Drama about a former Nazi torturer and child molester, now paralysed and confined to an iron lung.

Klaus (Günter Meisner) performed inhuman experiments on children during World War II. After the war, the former Nazi continues to abuse young boys until an unsuccessful suicide attempt leaves him unable to breathe on his own. Permanently reliant on an iron lung, Klaus also needs full-time care to survive. Some years later a young man offers to help look after him, a young man who was himself one of Klaus's victims...

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