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Directed by | Victor Vicas |
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Cinematography | Klaus von Rautenfeld |
Edited by | Ira Oberberg |
Music by | Hans-Martin Majewski |
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Running time | 95 minutes |
Country | Germany |
Language | German |
No Way Back ( German: Weg ohne Umkehr) is a 1953 West German drama film directed by Victor Vicas and starring Ivan Desny, Ruth Niehaus and René Deltgen. [1] It was made at the height of the Cold War.
In 1945 following the Battle of Berlin, a Red Army officer is able to protect a young German woman he finds living in a cellar. Several years later he returns to the city as a civilian, finds her again and makes plans to flee from East to West Germany under the noses of the KGB.