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Director:
Writers:
Axel Eggebrecht (writer)
Peter Lorre (novel)
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Release Date:
7 September 1951 (West Germany) more
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Plot:
German scientist murders his fiancée during World War II when he learns that she has been selling the results of his secret research to the enemy. more | add synopsis
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1 win more
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One of the greatest post war german films! more (10 total)

Cast

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Peter Lorre ... Dr. Karl Rothe, alias Dr. Karl Neumeister
Karl John ... Hösch, alias Nowak
Helmuth Rudolph ... Colonel Winkler
Johanna Hofer ... Frau Hermann
Renate Mannhardt ... Inge Hermann
Eva Ingeborg Scholz ... Ursula Weber
Gisela Trowe ... Prostitute
Lotte Rausch ... Woman on Train
Hansi Wendler ... Secretary
Josef Dahmen ... Lieske, canteen bartender
Alexander Hunzinger ... Drunk
Kurt Meister ... Preefke
Peter Ahrweiler ... Oberstleutnant
Richard Münch ... Criminal Inspector
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Das Untier (West Germany) (working title)
The Lost One
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Runtime:
98 min
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1.37 : 1 more
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One of the greatest post war german films!, 15 April 2002
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Lorre, perhaps like Charles Laughton, had only this chance to direct. Like Laughton, Lorre made an excellent film, and encountered no problems whatsoever concerning complete control of the film, unlike Laughton, whose film was given a crude ending as a gift from the studio. This is a beautiful, poetic movie about horrible subjects, and the complicated reactions and perspectives one will have about these characters, especially Lorre's, teaches us much about Germany, the Nazis and aspects of the war in general. While there are passing similarities in content to Wilder's A Foreign Affair, Die Verlorne is so much the better movie, so much more poetic (perhaps than anything Wilder ever did), and so moving, in brutal ways, that it just has to be considered one of the best and most powerful and most depressing films ever made.

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