Film

Duped Till Doomsday

1957 · 1h 14m · Drama · Crime · War

IMDb

7.0

East Germany's contribution to the 1957 Cannes Film Festival was the wartime melodrama Betrogen bis zum Juengsten Tag. Had the film been released in the U.S., the title would probably have translated to Duped Till the Last. The film condemns the Nazi mindset by concentrating on a particularly odious cover-up. When his son is involved in the accidental killing of a girl, a Gestapo general pulls strings to save the boy from prosecution. The general manages to pin the blame for the killing on a group of Russians, whereupon he gives the men under his command carte blanche to round up and execute as many innocent Russians as they wish. This act of brutality is contrasted with the pangs of guilt suffered by the son and his co-conspirators.

Rudolf Ulrich

Corporal Wagner Karl

Wolfgang Kieling

Private Lick

Erich Brauer

Hauptfeldwebel

Hans-Joachim Martens

Upper gunner Paulun Thomas

Walther Suessenguth

captain von der Saale

Renate Küster

Angelika, his daughter

Peter Kiwitt

General of the Waffen-SS Lick

Hermann Dieckhoff

Division commander

Kurt Ulrich

lieutenant

Hannes Fischer

Kitchen sergeant

Helga Raumer

Innkeeper daughter

Paul Pfingst

SS man

Carlo Kluge

SS man

Werner Senftleben

Sergeant in the shooting range

Hermann Mayer-Falkow

Major in the shooting range

Horst Kube

Soldier in the telephone exchange

• Kurt Jung-AlsenDirector
• Kurt BortfeldtWriter
• Franz FühmannNovel
• Walter FehdmerDirector of Photography
• Wally GurschkeEditor

Release date

March 7, 1957

Status

Released

Original language

German

Runtime

1h 14m

Genres

Drama, Crime, War