‘I Is Another’ is a German suspense drama about Felix Kersten, Heinrich Himmler’s real-life physiotherapist, who claimed after the Second World War that he helped secure Jewish prisoners’ release. The review finds the film a compelling, deliberately ambiguous meditation on truth, self-mythologising and deception, driven by Claes Bang’s portrayal of the charismatic but egotistical Kersten and Valerie Pachner’s fictional journalist.

Most of the 93-minute film takes place on a 1952 train to Oslo, where Kersten expects recognition connected to the Nobel Peace Prize and the 1945 White Buses prisoner releases. Those releases are generally credited to Swedish Red Cross president Folke Bernadotte, while Kersten’s competing version of events remains disputed; the film uses this historical uncertainty, with some fictionalisation, to explore who controls public memory. Premiering at the Locarno Film Festival, it is seen as having potential for specialist distribution beyond Germany.