The Lost One

Inspired by what he experienced when he returned to his native Germany in 1949, famed Hollywood character actor Lorre directed this, the only film he ever directed in his long career. Lorre is a doctor working in a postwar refugee camp in Germany. He has assumed a new identity, calling himself "Neumeister" ("new master"). He is confronted by John who has just begun working at the camp as Lorre's assistant, and whom Lorre recognizes immediately as an old nemesis from the war days. John seeks a truce, because he needs the doctor to secure false identity papers for him to escape the Allies. Lorre invites John to the camp's canteen for a drink and dismisses the bartend...