Directed by:
Emil E. ReinertScreenplay:
Michael KehlmannCinematography:
Helmuth AshleyComposer:
Richard HagemanCast:
Gustav Fröhlich, Cornell Borchers, Adrienne Gessner, Rosa Albach-Retty, Ulrich Bettac, Franz Böheim, Heinz Conrads, Fritz Eckhardt, Hermann Erhardt (more)Plots(1)
Toni, taxi driver, lost everything in war. Karin, wife of a rich despot, incapacitated. John Milton, American, childhood friend of Karin, dead on the backseat of Toni's taxi, murdered by Karin's husband. And the passport of the dead, which Toni takes. A typically "hitchcockian" constellation in which this American coproduced thriller is set. Only many years later in the movies of Eddy Saller and Frits Fronz you'll find so much nocturn genre-film-existentialism. (Viennale)
(more)Cast
Gustav Fröhlich
German Empire
Best movies:
Metropolis (1927)
Barcarole (1935)
The Stars Shine (1938)
Cornell Borchers
Lithuania
Best movies:
Never Say Goodbye (1956)
The Big Lift (1950)
Adrienne Gessner
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
Die Deutschmeister (1955)
A Breath of Scandal (1960)
Tatort (1970) (series)
Rosa Albach-Retty
German Empire
Ulrich Bettac
German Empire
Best movies:
Sissi (1955)
Sissi: The Young Empress (1956)
Franz Böheim
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
Sissi (1955)
Sissi: The Young Empress (1956)
Der brave Soldat Schwejk (1960)
Heinz Conrads
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
Die Deutschmeister (1955)
Fritz Eckhardt
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
Die schöne Lügnerin (1959)
Via Mala (1985) (series)
The Man Who Walked Through the Wall (1959)
Hermann Erhardt
Best movies:
The Last Ten Days (1955)
Karl Farkas
Austria-Hungary
Pepi Glöckner-Kramer
German Empire
Best movies:
The Second Shot (1943)
Wolfgang Glück
Austria
Best movies:
Funny Games (1997)
Red Sun (1970)
Hugo Gottschlich
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
Sissi: The Young Empress (1956)
Forever My Love (1962)
Der brave Soldat Schwejk (1960)
Hans Hagen
Austria-Hungary
Manfred Inger
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
The Great Sinner (1949)
Caught (1949)
Tatort (1970) (series)
Helmut Janatsch
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
Holocaust (1978) (series)
The Elusive Corporal (1962)
Fantômas (1980) (series)
Michael Kehlmann
Austria
Alexander Kerst
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Battle Inferno (1959)
The Winds of War (1983) (series)
Young Catherine (1991) (TV movie)
Inge Konradi
Austria
Francis Lederer
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
Midnight (1939)
Pandora's Box (1929)
The Diary of a Chambermaid (1946)