No Way Back (1953 film)
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.
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| Directed by | Victor Vicas |
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| Music by | Hans-Martin Majewski |
| Cinematography | Klaus von Rautenfeld |
| Edited by | Ira Oberberg |
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Release date | 6 November 1953 |
Running time | 95 minutes |
| Country | Germany |
| Language | German |
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
- Serge Beloussow as Litvinski
- Leonid Pylajew as Wassilij
- Alf Marholm as Direktor Berger
- Erika Dannhoff
- John Haggerty as Steve McCullough
- Wolfgang Neuss as Comedian
- Herbert von Boxberger
- Bogislav von Heyden
- Reinhard Kolldeh
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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 on IMDb
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