Berlin, 1943. After the death of her husband in a concentration camp, the Jewish Anna is left fending for herself and her young son Michael in the Nazi-ravaged city. When their apartment house is raided, they rip the mandatory Star of David patches from their clothing and are barely able to escape the round up to which their many Jewish neighbors fall victim. Aided by their friend Lona and traveling under assumed names, they find refuge with a compassionate Russian pianist. One day, just as they are about to be discovered, an Allied bombing raid prevents their capture, but they are again thrust onto the dangerous city streets. So begins a harrowing two-year odyssey through the region, with the Nazi net drawing ever tighter around them. It is only due to a steady stream of sympathetic and brave Germans who offer them safe haven – risking their own lives in the process – that Anna and Michael are able to survive...
There is the friendly communist couple, who know from their own experience what it means to be hunted. Wakened in the middle of the night by their frantic hosts, Anna and Michael leap out of a window to evade the dreaded Gestapo pounding on the front door below.
Wearing the safe uniform of a Hitler youth, young Michael befriends another boy, Rolf, who brings him home. Rolf's father, Mr. Redlich, is a railroad engineer whose wife had abandoned him, and who suffers a terrible guilt from having transported trainloads of Jews to their deaths in the concentration camps. He as well welcomes the two Jews into his home…
Soon, however, the Russian divisions enter Berlin. Having survived so far, Anna and Michael are now accused by the advancing soldiers of being spies. Where before they had to hide their Jewish identities; now, with their lives again on the line, they are forced to prove them… (fonte: Beta Film)

Nicht alle waren Mörder (Film) Nicht alle waren Mörder ist ein deutscher Fernsehfilm unter der Regie von Jo Baier aus dem Jahr 2006, der auf den Erlebnissen des Schauspielers Michael Degen beruht, die dieser bereits 1999 in seinem gleichnamigen Buch geschildert hatte. (fonte: Wikipedia)

Basato sui ricordi d'infanzia di Michael Degen, il film narra il modo in cui lui e la madre sopravvissero nella Germania nazista dopo la morte del padre, deceduto poco dopo essere stato internato nel lager di Sachsenhausen nel 1940. Per la paura di venire deportati, Michael e la madre, con documenti falsi, si nascondono di casa in casa, grazie a dei Berlinesi coraggiosi.