In the compelling German suspense story I Is Another (Ich ist ein Anderer), protean Danish polyglot Claes Bang stars as Felix Kersten, an actual physiotherapist/masseur who claimed he was instrumental in persuading his client Heinrich Himmler to let Jewish prisoners go at the end of World War II but whose account remains disputed to this day. Writer-director Felix Randau finds an economical way to distill the mystery around the attractive but clearly egomaniacal Kersten by putting him in conversation on a train with Valerie Pachner’s fictional East German journalist, a woman with her own shady past. The combustible onscreen chemistry of…
