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The Boat Is Full

6.0 101 mins Drama   History   War   1981
ORF   ZDF   Limbo Film AG   Schweizer Fernsehen (FS)  
Director(s): Markus Imhoof

During World War II, Switzerland severely limited refugees: "Our boat is full." A train from Germany halts briefly in an isolated corner of Switzerland. Six people jump off seeking asylum: four Jews, a French child, and a German soldier. They seek temporary refuge with a couple who run a village inn. They pose as a family: the deserter as husband, Judith as his wife, an old man from Vienna as her father, his granddaughter and the French lad, whom they beg to keep silent, as their children. Judith's teenage brother poses as a soldier. The fabrication unravels through chance and the local constable's exact investigation. Whom will the Swiss allow to stay? Who gets deported?

Casts of The Boat Is Full

Tina Engel

as Judith Krueger

Hans Diehl

as Hannes Krueger

Mathias Gnädinger

as Franz Flueckiger

Curt Bois

as Lazar Ostrowskij

Martin Walz

as Olaf Landau

Ilse Bahrs

as Mrs. Ostrowskij

Gerd David

as Karl Schneider

Simone

as Gitty

Laurent

as Maurice

Renate Steiger

as Anna Flueckinger

Michael Gempart

as Landjäger Bigler

Klaus Steiger

as Reverend Hochdorfer

Alice Bruengger

as Frau Hochdorfer

Otto Dornbierer

as Otti

Monika Koch

as Rosemarie

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