Gerd Oswald
Director


In 1938 Austria shortly after the Nazi occupation, a prominent Viennese intellectual, Werner von Basil, is arrested for smuggling art treatures out of the country and imprisoned by the Gestapo in a hotel room without any mental sustence of any kind to break him down to make him talk while a young ballerina, named Irene Adreny whom is the lover of the SS officer Berger playing mind games on von Basil, tries to intervene and help the poor intellectual keep his mind intact.
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Gerd Oswald
Director

Curd Jürgens
Werner von Basil

Claire Bloom
Irene Andreny

Hansjörg Felmy
Hans Berger

Mario Adorf
Mirko Centowic
Albert Bessler
Scientist

Rudolf Forster
Hotel Manager

Alan Gifford
Mac Iver

Jan Hendriks
First Officer

Albert Lieven
Hartmann

Harald Maresch
Ballet Master

Dietmar Schönherr
Rabbi

Karel Stepanek
Baranow

Hans Söhnker
Bishop Ambrosse

Rainer Brandt
First Officer

Rijk de Gooyer
Berger's Secretary
Wolfgang Wahl
Moonface

Robert Dietl
Steward

Susanne Körber-Harlan
Young Lady
Stefan Zweig
Writer