Duped Till Doomsday (1957)
Synopsis
East Germany's contribution to the 1957 Cannes Film Festival was the wartime melodrama Betrogen bis zum Juengsten Tag. Had the film been released in the U.S., the title would probably have translated to Duped Till the Last. The film condemns the Nazi mindset by concentrating on a particularly odious cover-up. When his son is involved in the accidental killing of a girl, a Gestapo general pulls strings to save the boy from prosecution. The general manages to pin the blame for the killing on a group of Russians, whereupon he gives the men under his command carte blanche to round up and execute as many innocent Russians as they wish. This act of brutality is contrasted with the pangs of guilt suffered by the son and his co-conspirators.
Release Date: 1957-03-07
Runtime: 74 minutes
Director: Kurt Jung-Alsen
Top Cast
- Rudolf Ulrich as Corporal Wagner Karl
- Wolfgang Kieling as Private Lick
- Erich Brauer as Hauptfeldwebel
- Hans-Joachim Martens as Upper gunner Paulun Thomas
- Walther Suessenguth as captain von der Saale
- Renate Küster as Angelika, his daughter
- Peter Kiwitt as General of the Waffen-SS Lick
- Hermann Dieckhoff as Division commander
- Kurt Ulrich as lieutenant
- Hannes Fischer as Kitchen sergeant
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