I was amazed: that unreadable old tome had been made into a movie! Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. For the movie adaptation, see. In the year Hitler came to power Seghers, doubly endangered as both a Jew and a Communist, fled with her family to Switzerland. This article was sourced from Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. When Georg’s friend, Paul Röder, is called in for questioning by the Gestapo, his wife Liesel wonders if they will beat him up until he finally admits where Georg is, and if only then he can come home, and whether life can carry on as before. To date, it has been translated into more than thirty languages. Other Christian references include the allusion to the dragon slayer in the main character’s first name; the first night of his flight spent in the Mainz Cathedral; and, not least, the number seven, which turns up not only in the cross of the title, but also in the basic seven-chapter structure of the novel, covering a week, from Monday to Sunday. Admittedly, this is usually not a good reason to buy a novel but it turned out I had bought myself a real bargain. Their goal now is not to get captured again. Accordingly, Hermann contacts Reinhardt to approach Paul to see if he is indeed hiding Georg. Chemistry, Mainz, Germany, Germans, Munich, Anna Seghers,