Directed by:
André De TothScreenplay:
Lester ColeCinematography:
Lee GarmesComposer:
Ernst TochCast:
Marsha Hunt, Alexander Knox, Henry Travers, Erik Rolf, Dorothy Morris, Hank Worden, Trevor Bardette, Ray Teal, Art Smith, Richard Hale, Ruth Nelson (more)Plots(1)
Set after German capitulation in World War II, the story is of the war crimes trial of a former Third Reich commissioner for Poland, Wilhelm Grimm. As witnesses testify, flashbacks tell his life story. He returns from the "Great War" in 1919, an amputee, but with an Iron Cross, to his hometown, now part of Poland. His revanchist stance drives away his fiancée. After impregnating a minor, he flees the town. He takes part in the 1923 Beer Hall Putsch in Munich and by 1929, is a Brownshirt functionary in Berlin, sought by police. A lieutenant general in the SS in 1933, he has his own brother sent to a concentration camp and forces his nephew to join the Hitler Youth. From 1939 on, Grimm starts plundering the Polish population – and orders a massacre of Jews. (Berlinale)
(more)Cast
Marsha Hunt
USA
Best movies:
The Name of the Game (1968) (series)
Johnny Got His Gun (1971)
The Valley of Decision (1945)
Alexander Knox
Canada
Best movies:
The Last Place on Earth (1985) (series)
The Longest Day (1962)
Reach for the Sky (1956)
Henry Travers
UK
Best movies:
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
Edison, the Man (1940)
The Yearling (1946)
Erik Rolf
USA
Best movies:
Song of the South (1946)
Dorothy Morris
USA
Best movies:
The Name of the Game (1968) (series)
Keeper of the Flame (1942)
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944)
Hank Worden
USA
Best movies:
Stagecoach (1939)
Sergeant Rutledge (1960)
The Cowboy and the Lady (1938)
Trevor Bardette
USA
Best movies:
Gone with the Wind (1939)
The Big Sleep (1946)
Gun Crazy (1950)
Ray Teal
USA
Best movies:
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
Ace in the Hole (1951)
Art Smith
USA
Best movies:
In a Lonely Place (1950)
Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948)
Arch of Triumph (1948)
Richard Hale
USA
Best movies:
Ben-Hur (1959)
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Julius Caesar (1953)
Ruth Nelson
USA
Best movies:
Awakenings (1990)
The Keys of the Kingdom (1944)
Arch of Triumph (1948)
George Magrill
Best movies:
The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima (1952)
Love Crazy (1941)
Double Indemnity (1944)
George Lynn
USA
Best movies:
The Great Dictator (1940)
To Be or Not to Be (1942)
Notorious (1946)
Philip Van Zandt
Netherlands
Best movies:
Citizen Kane (1941)
Gilda (1946)
Life with Father (1947)
Chung Wong
USA
Best movies:
The Call of the Wild (1935)
Barbary Coast (1935)
The Lady from Shanghai (1947)
Kurt Kreuger
German Empire
Best movies:
Action in the North Atlantic (1943)
Edge of Darkness (1943)
Christmas in Connecticut (1945) - a.f.
Richard Crane
USA
Best movies:
So Proudly We Hail! (1943)
Follow the Boys (1944)
A Lady Without Passport (1950)
Kernan Cripps
USA
Best movies:
Double Indemnity (1944)
The Roaring Twenties (1939)
Gone with the Wind (1939)
Felix Basch
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
Uncertain Glory (1944)
Desperate Journey (1942)
Reunion in France (1942)
Sven Hugo Borg
Sweden
Best movies:
Action in the North Atlantic (1943)
Reap the Wild Wind (1942)
Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948)