Roses for the Prosecutor (1959)
Synopsis
April 1945. Because he stole two bars of chocolate, the soldier Rudi is sentenced to death by the court-martial judge Dr. Schramm. Rudi manages to escape from the firing squad at the last minute, and since the end of the war has been making a meager living as a street peddler. Years later, Dr. Schramm is now a respected public prosecutor. By chance, he runs into Rudi one day on the street. Afraid that Rudi will blow the whistle on him, Dr. Schramm wants to scare him out of town. He has Rudi arrested and bullied by the police.
Release Date: 1959-09-24
Runtime: 97 minutes
Director: Wolfgang Staudte
Top Cast
- Martin Held as Oberstaatsanwalt Dr. Wilhelm Schramm
- Walter Giller as Rudi Kleinschmidt
- Ingrid van Bergen as Lissy Flemming
- Camilla Spira as Hildegard Schramm
- Werner Peters as Otto Kugler
- Ralf Wolter as Hessel
- Wolfgang Preiss as Generalstaatsanwalt
- Paul Hartmann as Landgerichtspräsident Diefenbach
- Wolfgang Wahl as Defense Counsel
- Roland Kaiser as Schramms Stiefsohn Werner
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