No Way Back (1953 film)
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Directed by | Victor Vicas |
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Cinematography | Klaus von Rautenfeld |
Edited by | Ira Oberberg |
Music by | Hans-Martin Majewski |
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Running time | 95 minutes |
Country | Germany |
Language | German |
No Way Back (German: Weg ohne Umkehr) is a 1953 West German drama film directed by Victor Vicas and starring Ivan Desny, Ruth Niehaus and René Deltgen.[1] It was made at the height of the Cold War.
In 1945 following the Battle of Berlin, a Red Army officer is able to protect a young German woman he finds living in a cellar. Several years later he returns to the city as a civilian, finds her again and makes plans to flee from East to West Germany under the noses of the KGB.
Cast[]
- Ivan Desny as Michael Zorin aka Mischa
- Ruth Niehaus as Anna Brückner
- René Deltgen as Major Kazanow
- Karl John as Friedrich Schultz
- Lila Kedrova as Ljuba
- as Litvinski
- as Wassilij
- Alf Marholm as Direktor Berger
- Erika Dannhoff
- as Steve McCullough
- Wolfgang Neuss as Comedian
References[]
- ^ Bock & Bergfelder p. 82
Bibliography[]
- Bock, Hans-Michael & Bergfelder, Tim. The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema. Berghahn Books, 2009.
External links[]
- No Way Back at IMDb
Categories:
- 1953 films
- German-language films
- 1953 drama films
- German drama films
- West German films
- Films directed by Victor Vicas
- Films set in Berlin
- Films set in 1945
- Cold War films
- German black-and-white films
- 1950s German film stubs