The Restless Night
Unruhige Nacht
Release: 1958-10-29
·Runtime: 96m
·★ 4.0
History
War
Drama
1958: during the Russian campaign, a military priest is called upon to assist Private Baranowski, who has been sentenced to death for desertion, on his last night. It is also the last night before the departure for Stalingrad, which the soldiers know means certain death. The priest leaves his room to a captain so that he can meet his fiancée one last time. He himself remains in Baranowski's cell and struggles with his conscience and his emotion - even more so when he learns that the young doomed man committed desertion out of love. But the execution is carried out, and a member of the firing squad finds only cynical words for the soldier's fate.
Production Countries
Germany
Production Companies
Real-Film
Carlton-Film
Filmaufbau
Cast
Werner Peters
Anneli Sauli
as Ljuba
Albert Bessler
Karl-Heinz Kreienbaum
Richard Münch
as Kriegsgerichtsrat
Werner Hinz
as Oberleutnant Ernst
Erik Schumann
as Hauptmann von Arnim
Joseph Offenbach
as Untersuchungsrichter
Wolfgang Gruner
Erik von Loewis
Ulla Jacobsson
as Melanie
Bernhard Wicki
as Priest Brunner
Hansjörg Felmy
as Fedor Baranowski
