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Morituri is a film of genre Drama directed by Eugen York with Winnie Markus

Morituri (1948)

Morituri
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Length 1h28
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Genres Drama,    War
Rating68% 3.4013453.4013453.4013453.4013453.401345

Morituri is a 1948 German black-and-white drama film produced by Artur Brauner's CCC Film. The film was directed by Eugen York and starred Walter Richter, Winnie Markus and Lotte Koch. It features the onscreen debut of German actor Klaus Kinski as a Dutch concentration camp prisoner.

Synopsis

As the end of the Second World War approaches and the Soviet Red Army is advancing, a group of concentration camp inmates is helped to escape by a Polish doctor. They hide in a wood where they meet other fugitives, who have been there for months, constantly in fear of being discovered. Out of fear of the German army patrols, they do not dare to leave the forest, even as the food supplies run low. The Polish doctor blows up a bridge, attracting the German troops' attention to the forest. The soldiers come perilously close to the hidden fugitives, but in the last moment have to retreat before the approaching Red Army units.

Actors

Winnie Markus

(Maria Bronek)Hilde Körber

(die Irre)Lotte Koch

(Lydia, die Polin)Josef Sieber

(Eddy)Carl-Heinz Schroth

(Armand)
And :
Erich Dunskus
Willy Prager
Klaus Kinski
Annemarie Hase
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