With the devil against Satan

The “dance with death” begins in November 1932 in Berlin’s Wedding. Seven SA men storm a bar and shoot the communist Kurt Esser, editor of the KPD newspaper “Rote Fahne”. The young inspector Karl Raben succeeds in solving the murder and bringing the escaped gunman back from Vienna in a cloak and dagger operation. The guillotine awaits him in Plötzensee. But hardly is…