Duel with Death
Duel with Death | |
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Directed by | Paul May |
Written by | Paul May Georg Wilhelm Pabst |
Produced by | Georg Wilhelm Pabst |
Starring | Rolf von Nauckhoff Annelies Reinhold |
Cinematography | Helmuth Ashley |
Music by | |
Production company | Pabst-Kiba-Filmproduktionsgesellschaft |
Distributed by | Union Film |
Release date | 20 July 1949 |
Running time | 114 minutes |
Country | Austria |
Language | German |
Duel with Death (German: Duell mit dem Tod) is a 1949 Austrian war drama film directed by Paul May and starring Rolf von Nauckhoff, Annelies Reinhold, and .[1] The film portrays the Austrian resistance to Nazi Germany during the Second World War.
The film's sets were designed by the art director Otto Pischinger.
It premiered at the Locarno Film Festival in July 1949 before going on general release in Austria that December.
Synopsis[]
A Professor is brought before an Allied military court to explain apparently incriminating evidence against him. This gives him a chance to recount what really happened during the war years.
Cast[]
- Rolf von Nauckhoff as Dr. Ernst Romberg
- Annelies Reinhold as Maria Romberg
- as Pfarrer Menhardt
- as Defense lawyer Dr. Hallmann
- Louis V. Arco as Gerichtsvorsitzender
- as Franz Lang
- Maria Eis as Frau Lang
- Erich Auer as Geisler
- Martin King as Ziegler
- Manfred Schuster as Beierle
- Hannes Schiel as Rainer, Standartenführer der SS
- as Kaindl
- Emmerich Schrenk as Dietz, Sturmführer der SS
- Otto Schmöle as Präsident des deutschen Feldkriegsgerichts
- Ulrich Bettac
- Heinz Moog
References[]
- ^ Fritsche p.49
Bibliography[]
- Fritsche, Maria. Homemade Men in Postwar Austrian Cinema: Nationhood, Genre and Masculinity. Berghahn Books, 2013.
External links[]
Categories:
- German-language films
- 1949 films
- 1940s war drama films
- Austrian war drama films
- Austrian films
- Films directed by Paul May
- World War II war crimes trials films
- Austrian black-and-white films
- 1949 drama films
- Austrian World War II films
- Films about World War II resistance movements
- Austrian resistance
- Austrian film stubs