My Best Enemy

My Best Enemy is a 2011 Austrian / Luxembourgian comedy film directed by Wolfgang Murnberger. Cast Moritz Bleibtreu as Victor Kaufmann Georg Friedrich as Rudi Smekal Ursula Strauss as Lena Marthe Keller as Hannah Kaufmann Udo Samel as Jakob Kaufmann Uwe Bohm as Standartenführer Widriczek Rainer Bock as SS-Hauptsturmführer Rauter Karl Fischer as SS Obersturmbannführer Maier Hans-Michael Rehberg as Karel Brinek Merab Ninidze as Moritz Haiden Mirko Roggenbock as SS-Untersturmführer Gruber Christoph Luser as SS-Scharführer Weber Klaus Manchen as Staatssekretär Leipold Storyline Vienna, shortly after Austria's annexation to the German Reich: Victor Kaufmann and Rudi Smekal have been friends since their earliest childhood. But the new socio-political conditions put their friendship to the test. For Victor is Jewish, Rudi is considered German according to the Nuremberg Race Laws. Victor and his parents Hannah and Jakob Kaufmann were unable to flee Austria in time and are therefore deported to the Mauthausen concentration camp. Rudi, meanwhile, joins the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP) and the SS, hoping to make a career in Hitler's party. Rudi also becomes engaged to Lena, Victor's former fiancée.