No Way Back (1953 film)
1953 film
- Gregory Klimov (book)
- Gerhard T. Buchholz
- Victor Vicas
- Beate von Molo
- Gerhard T. Buchholz
- Stuart Schulberg
- Ivan Desny
- Ruth Niehaus
- René Deltgen
Production
companies
companies
- Occident Film Produktion
- Trans-Rhein Film
- Hamburg-Film
- Ring-Film
Release date
- 6 November 1953 (1953-11-06)
Running time
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
- 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
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
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