Bahnwärter Thiel

Thiel keeps the line. The line does not keep him. A quiet signalman in the Brandenburg pines buries one wife, marries a second who hits harder than she loves, and tries to serve God, the timetable, and a small son all at once — while the trains shake the hut and the forest does not blink. This is not a rural idyll. It is a man being pulled apart between the rails.