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Berlin Express (1948) 6.9
A multinational group of train passengers become involved in a post-World War II Nazi assassination plot. Director:Jacques Tourneur |
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Title: Berlin Express (1948)
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Lucienne
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Robert Lindley
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Perrot
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Dr. Bernhardt
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Sterling
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Reinhold Schünzel | ... |
Walther
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Roman Toporow | ... |
Lt. Maxim Kiroshilov
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Peter von Zerneck | ... |
Hans Schmidt
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Otto Waldis | ... |
Kessler
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Fritz Kortner | ... |
Franzen
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Michael Harvey | ... |
Sgt. Barnes
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Tom Keene | ... |
Major
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In divided Germany just after WWII, people from many different countries are passengers on a train. When one of the passengers, a German working for peace, is kidnapped by people who don't want his ideas to work, the others must set aside their differences and work together to find him in time for an important conference. Written by Ken Yousten <kyousten@bev.net>
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Trapped on a Train of Terror!Parents Guide:
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Country:
USARelease Date:
1 May 1948 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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Mono (RCA Sound System)Color:
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1.37 : 1
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Narrator: [voiceover] On a warm June day in the Rue Saint Martin in Paris there was a disturbance. Members of the French press were protesting their being barred from a secret conference. Inside, representatives of the United Nations were hearing a report from the head of a special fact-finding commission - a man named Dr. Heinrich Bernhardt. Bernhardt had a long proven record on international affairs. His report was sharp and concise. Facts and figures about turning the four allied zones of ...
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The first Hollywood production in Germany after World War II. See more »Quotes
[first lines]Narrator: [voiceover] On a warm June day in the Rue Saint Martin in Paris there was a disturbance. Members of the French press were protesting their being barred from a secret conference. Inside, representatives of the United Nations were hearing a report from the head of a special fact-finding commission - a man named Dr. Heinrich Bernhardt. Bernhardt had a long proven record on international affairs. His report was sharp and concise. Facts and figures about turning the four allied zones of ...
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On a surface level this is a kind of benevolent THIRD MAN, as a group of international comrades, most prominently a naive American, try to root out sinister Germans and a betraying friend in the rubbles of post-war Europe. The script is a model of civic decency, as it dramatises the lingering dangers facing Europe after the war, but offering a narrative of co-operation and hope.
Director Tourneur, however, had only just directed the beautifully bleak OUT OF THE PAST, and this film is full of a blackness overwhelming good intentions, where the frightening contingencies of history and inexplicable darkness of man are not so easily swept aside. His mastery of space and lighting, his disturbing compositions and vigorous editing are an eternal pleasure not to be enjoyed again until Scorcese's glory days.