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
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
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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