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Duped Till Doomsday (1957)
Directed by Kurt Jung-Alsen
Drama, Crime, War · 1h 14m
East Germany's contribution to the 1957 Cannes Film Festival was the wartime melodrama Betrogen bis zum Juengsten Tag. Had the film been released in the U.S., the title would probably have translated to Duped Till the Last. The film condemns the Nazi mindset by concentrating on a particularly odious cover-up. When his son is involved in the accidental killing of a girl, a Gestapo general pulls strings to save the boy from prosecution. The general manages to pin the blame for the killing on a group of Russians, whereupon he gives the men under his command carte blanche to round up and execute as many innocent Russians as they wish. This act of brutality is contrasted with the pangs of guilt suffered by the son and his co-conspirators.
Cast
Rudolf Ulrich
Corporal Wagner Karl
Wolfgang Kieling
Private Lick
Erich Brauer
Hauptfeldwebel
Hans-Joachim Martens
Upper gunner Paulun Thomas
Walther Suessenguth
captain von der Saale
Renate Küster
Angelika, his daughter
Peter Kiwitt
General of the Waffen-SS Lick
Kurt Ulrich
lieutenant
Helga Raumer
Innkeeper daughter
Paul Pfingst
SS man
Crew
- Director
- Kurt Jung-Alsen
- Writer
- Kurt Bortfeldt
- Novel
- Franz Fühmann
- Director of Photography
- Walter Fehdmer
- Editor
- Wally Gurschke
Details
- Original title
- Betrogen bis zum jüngsten Tag
- Release date
- 1957-03-07
- Runtime
- 1h 14m
- Genres
- Drama, Crime, War
- Original language
- DE
- Spoken languages
- German
- Countries
- East Germany
- Production
- DEFA-Studio für Spielfilme