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Dangerous Crossing (1937)

Dangerous Crossing poster
Original title
Gleisdreieck
Directed by
Robert A. Stemmle
Genre
crime film
Country
Germany
Runtime
1h 18m
Rating
5.8 of 10 from 4 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A crime film set among railway workers in Berlin. It follows characters caught up in events around a dangerous rail intersection.

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What happens

Dangerous Crossing or Rail Triangle (German: Gleisdreieck) is a 1937 German crime film directed by Robert A. Stemmle and starring Gustav Fröhlich, Heli Finkenzeller, and Paul Hoffmann. It is set amongst railway workers and takes its name from Gleisdreieck on the Berlin U-Bahn. It was partly shot at the Babelsberg Studios in Potsdam. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Carl Böhm and Erich Czerwonski. It was shot on location around Berlin. It premiered at the city's Ufa-Palast am Zoo. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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