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The Restless Night

4.0 96 mins History   War   Drama   1958
Real-Film   Carlton-Film   Filmaufbau  
Director(s): Falk Harnack

Release Date: 29 Wed, Oct 1958

1958: during the Russian campaign, a military priest is called upon to assist Private Baranowski, who has been sentenced to death for desertion, on his last night. It is also the last night before the departure for Stalingrad, which the soldiers know means certain death. The priest leaves his room to a captain so that he can meet his fiancée one last time. He himself remains in Baranowski's cell and struggles with his conscience and his emotion - even more so when he learns that the young doomed man committed desertion out of love. But the execution is carried out, and a member of the firing squad finds only cynical words for the soldier's fate.

Casts of The Restless Night

Ulla Jacobsson

as Melanie

Bernhard Wicki

as Priest Brunner

Hansjörg Felmy

as Fedor Baranowski

Anneli Sauli

as Ljuba

Erik Schumann

as Hauptmann von Arnim

Werner Hinz

as Oberleutnant Ernst

Peter Esser

as Zahlmeister

Richard Münch

as Kriegsgerichtsrat

Joseph Offenbach

as Untersuchungsrichter

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