Hammer or Anvil

This is a political picture about the Bulgarian revolutionary Georgi Dimitrov In 1933 during the Reichstag Fire Trial trumpedup charges of having set the Reichstag on fire were brought against him At the trial Dimitrov exposed the machinations of the Nazis and turned from a defendant into an accuser Central to the story is the facetoface political duel between Dimitrov and Goering Dimitrovs interactions with ordinary Germans the memories of his wife Lyuba Ivoshevich and the meetings with his mother Parashkeva alternate with documentary shooting scenes from the time of Nazi Germany