The Ardennes offensive ("Watch on the Rhine") is the soldier Karl Maurer (Oskar Werner) of the Americans taken prisoner and agrees shortly after one, now hoping, on the "right" side, for this to return to Germany as a spy to spy on the position of an armored division in Mannheim. But once "at home" arrived, flying on the camouflage and "Happy", as he is known by the Americans must fight through the bombed Germany to the Allies back ...
Anatole Litvak, in 1933, first from Germany, then emigrated from Europe filmmaker, used 1950, the chance of debris in Germany this spy film to stage. With a huge budget for that time, in an authentic setting, great cast, and all genuine and authentic. The effort can be seen on the film, the setting which is not, is a stunning document of the main cities in ruins. Also have been staged with considerable effort fighting, air raids and car chases through the crashing together and bombed-out ruins of houses street canyons. DECISION BEFORE DAWN is not only visually but an "experience", even the actors can fully convince tens, along with Oskar Werner as Hildegard Knef, one Plays a prostitute with a heart, or Seyfert an SS officer, played by Wilfried. to see short, and Klaus Kinski in a first supporting role. An impressive film that tells of a last gasp of the Third Reich, but actually already announces its fall.
[The DVD has recently been published by Winkler.]
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