Country: Germany
Year: 1951
Duration: 98'
In a refugee camp in Hamburg at the end of the Second World War, the physicist Karl Rothe, who now works under a false name as the camp's doctor, meets Hoesch, his former assistant and a Nazi spy. The two recall wartime events: Hoesch had cleverly persuaded Rothe to kill his own fiancée because she had been accused of selling the results of the doctor's research to the English. Tormented by feelings of guilt, Rothe had at first attempted suicide and then later tried to kill Hoesch and other members of the Gestapo, who nevertheless were able to escape. A bombing raid had given him the chance to disappear and change his identity. At the end of the tale, Hoesch tries to buy his ex-colleague's silence, but Rothe kills him, thereby getting his revenge before throwing himself under a train.
Biography
film director
Peter Lorre
Peter Lorre was born in Hungary in 1904 as Ladislav Loewenstein. He started his acting career in Vienna in 1921. The director Jacob Moreno gave him his stage name Peter Lorre. In 1929 Lorre celebrated his first big stage success in Berlin's "Theater am Schiffbauerdamm" starring in Bertolt Brecht's productions. Playing the lead of a psychopathic childmurderer in Fritz Lang's M made him a movie-star worldwide. This also had a major impact on his film career in which he was mainly cast as melancholy and psychopathic characters. After 1936 Lorre lived in Hollywood. Starring as supporting actor in films like The Maltese Falcon, Casablanca and Arsenic and Old Lace established his reputation as one of the best actors of his time. In 1950 Lorre returned to Germany in order to direct his first and only film: Der Verlorene, which failed only 14 days after its release. Disappointed and discouraged Lorre moved back to Hollywood where he played characteristically melancholy parts in numerous B-pictures until his death in 1964.
FILMOGRAFIA
Der verlorene (1951).
Cast
& Credits
Director: Peter Lorre.
Soggetto e sceneggiatura: Peter Lorre, Axel Eggebrecht, Benno Vigny.
Director of photography: Vaclac Vich.
Editor: C.O. Bartning.
Cast and characters: Peter Lorre (Dr. Karl Rothe), Karl John (Hoesch), Helmuth Rudolph (Oberst Winkler), Renate Mannhardt (Inge Hermann), Johanna Hofer (Frau Hermann).
Producer: Arnold Pressburger.
In Germania, il progetto 15x15 è stato sviluppato dal Braunschweig Film Festival Hochstrasse, 21, 38102 Braunschweig, tel. +49-531-75597, e-mail filmfest@t-online.de
Il film è stato scelto da Ulrike Ottinger.
Soggetto e sceneggiatura: Peter Lorre, Axel Eggebrecht, Benno Vigny.
Director of photography: Vaclac Vich.
Editor: C.O. Bartning.
Cast and characters: Peter Lorre (Dr. Karl Rothe), Karl John (Hoesch), Helmuth Rudolph (Oberst Winkler), Renate Mannhardt (Inge Hermann), Johanna Hofer (Frau Hermann).
Producer: Arnold Pressburger.
In Germania, il progetto 15x15 è stato sviluppato dal Braunschweig Film Festival Hochstrasse, 21, 38102 Braunschweig, tel. +49-531-75597, e-mail filmfest@t-online.de
Il film è stato scelto da Ulrike Ottinger.