Film

The Restless Night

1958 · 1h 36m · History · War · Drama

IMDb

6.9

1958: during the Russian campaign, a military priest is called upon to assist Private Baranowski, who has been sentenced to death for desertion, on his last night. It is also the last night before the departure for Stalingrad, which the soldiers know means certain death. The priest leaves his room to a captain so that he can meet his fiancée one last time. He himself remains in Baranowski's cell and struggles with his conscience and his emotion - even more so when he learns that the young doomed man committed desertion out of love. But the execution is carried out, and a member of the firing squad finds only cynical words for the soldier's fate.

Ulla Jacobsson

Melanie

Bernhard Wicki

Priest Brunner

Hansjörg Felmy

Fedor Baranowski

Anneli Sauli

Ljuba

Erik Schumann

Hauptmann von Arnim

Werner Hinz

Oberleutnant Ernst

Albert Bessler

Peter Esser

Zahlmeister

Karl-Heinz Kreienbaum

Richard Münch

Kriegsgerichtsrat

Joseph Offenbach

Untersuchungsrichter

Werner Peters

Willem Holsboer

Emmerich Schrenk

Benno Gellenbeck

Werner Völger

• Falk HarnackDirector
• Horst BudjuhnWriter
• Albrecht GoesNovel
• Günther StapenhorstProducer
• Friedl Behn-GrundDirector of Photography
• Hans-Martin MajewskiOriginal Music Composer
• Eva KrollEditor
• Georg JaunEditor

Release date

October 29, 1958

Status

Released

Original language

German

Runtime

1h 36m

Rated

12

Genres

History, War, Drama