Vaarallinen pako

Original title: Desperate Moment

19531953
K-16K-16
1h 28m

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6.7/10

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Dirk Bogarde and Mai Zetterling in Vaarallinen pako (1953)

Crime Drama Thriller

Simon Van Halder (Sir Dirk Bogarde) is accused of murdering a British soldier during post-World War II mayhem. His girlfriend works on his behalf to expose the true villain.Simon Van Halder (Sir Dirk Bogarde) is accused of murdering a British soldier during post-World War II mayhem. His girlfriend works on his behalf to expose the true villain.Simon Van Halder (Sir Dirk Bogarde) is accused of murdering a British soldier during post-World War II mayhem. His girlfriend works on his behalf to expose the true villain.

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6.7/10

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Director
- Compton Bennett
Writers
- Martha Albrand(novel)
- George H. Brown(screenplay)
- Patrick Kirwan(screenplay)
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Albert Lieven, Simone Silva, and Mai Zetterling in Vaarallinen pako (1953)

Mai Zetterling in Vaarallinen pako (1953)

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Col. Bertrand, Dutch consulate: You don't seem to know the consequences your actions may have. You realise I shall put you on the first plane out of Berlin. All this is causing us great inconvenience.
Anna DeBurg: Inconvenience! That's a very poor word to use, Colonel. Simon didn't think it inconvenient to fight for the resistance. Now he's fighting to prove his innocence. Can't you see? Can't you see it's your duty to do everything in your power to help him?

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9/10

Dirk Bogarde as a fugitive dealing with impossible odds to extricate himself from injustice in a very romantic war thriller in post war Germany..

A surprisingly neglected and unknown Dirk Bogarde thriller well up to the standard of Carol Reed's war dramas. Dirk is a Polish prisoner accused of having murdered a British soldier, but the case is much more complicated. He is actually Dutch and lives only for the beautiful Mai Zetterling, and when he hears she is dead he doesn't care for anything any more but willingly confesses to the murder to save his friends, four fellow prisoners. This is only the introduction to a very tight thriller, mainly taking place in bombed out Hamburg and Berlin. The settings and atmosphere is very much the same as in Carol Reed's "The Man Between" with James Mason of the same year. Dirk Bogarde is no James Mason, but the thriller here is even more interesting and above all more romantic than in Carol Reed's parallel Berlin film. Both succeed in catching the monumental desolation of Berlin after the war and its fathomless tragedy of ruins and consequently compliment each other perfectly.

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