No Way Back (1953)

Original title

Weg ohne Umkehr

Directed by

Victor Vicas

Genre

drama film

Country

Germany

Runtime

1h 35m

Rated

12

Rating

7.4 of 10 from 6 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A Soviet Red Army officer saves a young German woman hiding in a cellar after the Battle of Berlin. Several years later he finds her again and plans to escape with her from communist East Germany to the West while evading the KGB.

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What happens

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. 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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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