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Director:

James Dearden

Writers:

Jeffrey Caine (novel)
James Dearden (writer)

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Release Date:

24 March 1984 (USA) more

Plot:

A girl brought to modern Germany experiences events that occurred during the World War II era. | add synopsis

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Awards:

1 win & 2 nominations more

User Comments:

good potential story, poor execution more (7 total)


Cast

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George Segal ... Hugh Martin

Amanda Pays ... Carla Martin / Christa Bruckner
Renée Soutendijk ... Lili
Warren Clarke ... Wilhelm Bruckner
Elizabeth Spriggs ... Frau Hoffman
Clifford Rose ... Moltke
Ursula Howells ... Headmistress
George Pravda ... The Doctor
Lucy Hornack ... Sophie
Gertan Klauber ... Older Nazi
Stuart Wolfe ... Young Man
Wolf Rüdiger Reutermann ... Customs Officer
Judich Melische ... Young Woman
Anthony Higgins ... Erich
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Additional Details

Also Known As:

The Prisoner
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Runtime:

USA:95 min

Country:

UK

Language:

English | German

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Mono


Fun Stuff

Goofs:

Factual errors: Approximately 71 minutes into the movie, when Heir Bruckner (Warren Clarke) is driving his daughter, Christa (Amanda Pays), home after picking her up from Nazi Headquarters, they are obviously in a British car. Heir Bruckner is driving from the right-hand side of the car, not the left-hand side as it would be in Germany. more


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1 out of 3 people found the following comment useful.
good potential story, poor execution, 9 July 2007
4/10
Author: TheatreX from Louisville, KY

A young, bitchy schoolgirl goes with her dad to East Berlin on holiday (or something) to be with him while he does some research. Dad has a new girlfriend in East Berlin, and he and daughter check into dreary hotel, where girl is bored bored bored, and she eventually investigates noises she's been hearing in her room & finds that there's someone hiding in the walls, a "cold room" that was used for kosher meats that fell into disuse when Jews got sent to concentration camps, or something equally as uplifting. But is that someone from THIS time, or from an earlier time? And is the daughter sliding back and forth between eras, or has she just gone off her rocker? Surprisingly, you won't care much either way once you've gotten into this, that is, if you haven't turned it off yet. I was interested in seeing how it ended so I stuck around and while overall, there's the bones of a good story here, it's not fleshed out and crumbles. I guess the dreariness goes well with the former East Berlin, before the wall came down and all that, but as for Sunday afternoon viewing, I say....nah. 4 out of 10.

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