The plot of the film is based on the historical events between the summer of 1932 and the night of February 27-28, 1933, when the Reichstag burned down in Berlin.
Based on the screenplay by Dr. Rainer Berg and director Friedemann Fromm, NACHT ÜBER BERLIN is a story that closely interweaves German history and human destinies to illustrate the extent to which political developments affected the lives of every individual at the time.

The Jewish ballroom owner Matze Belzig, brilliantly played by Jürgen Tarrach, stands on the stage of his ballroom in garish make-up, while downstairs, in the stalls, SA men dance to hot swing rhythms – the absurd chaos and the end-time mood in the last days of the Weimar Republic are wonderfully captured in this scene.

Above all, however, a first-class ensemble shines in this tragic story about a great love and about people who, in the face of political upheaval and terror on the streets, seek the right path for themselves and reveal their true character in the process. Anna Loos and Jan Josef Liefers lead the way as Henny Dallgow and Albert Goldmann – the self-confident bourgeois daughter from a good family and the doctor who sits in the Reichstag for the SPD, who come together only hesitantly, with much skepticism about the other’s world, and inevitably get caught up in the maelstrom of political events. The film cannot and does not want to get involved in the historical debate about who set the Reichstag fire and for what motives, but tells its own version of what happened on the night that served as a pretext for the Nazis to suspend basic rights and mercilessly persecute their opponents.