Lebenszeichen (1968)

Cast

Credited cast:
	Peter Brogle	...	Stroszek
	Wolfgang Reichmann	...	Meinhard
	Athina Zacharopoulou	...	Nora
	Wolfgang von Ungern-Sternberg	...	Becker
	Wolfgang Stumpf	...	Captain
	Henry van Lyck	...	Lieutenant
	Julio Pinheiro	...	Gypsy
	Florian Fricke	...	Pianist
	Heinz Usener	...	Doctor
	Achmed Hafiz	...	Greek resident
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
	Jannakis Frasakis
	Eleni Katerinaki

Storyline

On Crete, a wounded German paratrooper named Stroszek is sent to the quiet city of Kos with his wife Nora, a Greek nurse, and two other soldiers recovering from minor wounds. Billeted in a decaying fortress, they guard a munitions depot. There's little to do: Becker, a classicist, translates inscriptions on ancient tablets found in the fortress, Meinhart devises traps for cockroaches, Nora helps Stroszek make fireworks using gunpowder from grenades in the depot. Slowly, in the heat and torpor, Stroszek goes mad, drives the others from the fortress, and threatens the city with blowing up the depot. With care, the German command must figure out how to get him down. Written by <jhailey@hotmail.com>  

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