Es ist kalt in Brandenburg (Hitler töten)

Maurice Bavaud, a 22-year-old Swiss from Neuchâtel planned an attempt on Hitler’s life in Munich 1938. Armed with a small pistol, he tried for several weeks to get close enough to Hitler to complete his mission, but never succeeded. Sometime later, he was picked up by the Gestapo. What were his reasons? This film tries to trace the footsteps of this catholic student. In an article on Maurice Bavaud by the dramatist Rolf Hochhuth, the author describes him as “Tell 38”.
Hans Frölicher, at the time Swiss ambassador in Berlin, condemned his “abominable intentions”. And the People’s Court in Berlin considered it to be “entirely natural to encounter political catholic gangster activity of his kind with the death sentence”.
Maurice Bavaud was executed by the guillotine in 1941 in Berlin-Plötzensee after 30 months imprisonment.