Duped Till Doomsday (1957)

ALL 03/07/1957 (de) Drama, Crime, War 74 Min
  • Release
    03/07/1957
  • Production
    DEFA
  • Rotten tomato
    60%
  • Original title
    Betrogen bis zum jüngsten Tag
  • Original language
    de
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
    -

Overview

East Germany's contribution to the 1957 Cannes Film Festival was the wartime melodrama Betrogen bis zum Juengsten Tag. Had the film been released in the U.S., the title would probably have translated to Duped Till the Last. The film condemns the Nazi mindset by concentrating on a particularly odious cover-up. When his son is involved in the accidental killing of a girl, a Gestapo general pulls strings to save the boy from prosecution. The general manages to pin the blame for the killing on a group of Russians, whereupon he gives the men under his command carte blanche to round up and execute as many innocent Russians as they wish. This act of brutality is contrasted with the pangs of guilt suffered by the son and his co-conspirators.

  1. Kurt Jung-Alsen

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Producer



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Casts

  1. Rudolf Ulrich

    Corporal Wagner Karl

  2. Wolfgang Kieling

    Private Lick

  3. Erich Brauer

    Hauptfeldwebel

  4. Hans-Joachim Martens

    Upper gunner Paulun Thomas

  5. Walther Suessenguth

    captain von der Saale

  6. Renate Küster

    Angelika, his daughter

  7. Peter Kiwitt

    General of the Waffen-SS Lick

  8. Hermann Dieckhoff

    Division commander

  9. Kurt Ulrich

    lieutenant

  10. Hannes Fischer

    Kitchen sergeant

  11. Helga Raumer

    Innkeeper daughter

  12. Paul Pfingst

    SS man

  13. Carlo Kluge

    SS man

  14. Werner Senftleben

    Sergeant in the shooting range

  15. Hermann Mayer-Falkow

    Major in the shooting range

  16. Horst Kube

    Soldier in the telephone exchange

  17. Wolfgang Lippert

    Voss

  18. Gerhard Lau

    Gas, sergeant

  19. Lu Marek

    russian peasant woman

  20. Siegfried Weil

  21. Walter Wickenhauser

Full Cast & Crew

Casts : 21 , Crews : 9

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Duped Till Doomsday (1957) 74 Min

ALL 03/07/1957 (de)
Drama, Crime, War
  • Release 03/07/1957
  • Production
    DEFA
  • Original title Betrogen bis zum jüngsten Tag
  • de
  • Revenue0.00

Overview

East Germany's contribution to the 1957 Cannes Film Festival was the wartime melodrama Betrogen bis zum Juengsten Tag. Had the film been released in the U.S., the title would probably have translated to Duped Till the Last. The film condemns the Nazi mindset by concentrating on a particularly odious cover-up. When his son is involved in the accidental killing of a girl, a Gestapo general pulls strings to save the boy from prosecution. The general manages to pin the blame for the killing on a group of Russians, whereupon he gives the men under his command carte blanche to round up and execute as many innocent Russians as they wish. This act of brutality is contrasted with the pangs of guilt suffered by the son and his co-conspirators.

  1. Kurt Jung-Alsen

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Wally Gurschke

    Editor

  4. Producer