Desperate Moment (1953)

Directors

Compton Bennett

Cast

Albert Lieven, Dirk Bogarde, Ferdy Mayne, Fritz Wendhausen, Mai Zetterling, Theodore Bikel, Walter Gotell, Walter Rilla

The story

In the years immediately after World War II, a Dutchman, ex resistance, is sentenced to life imprisonment for a murder, committed during a robbery, that he confessed to but did not commit. After discovering that the girl he has loved since childhood is not dead, as he had been told, he escapes from prison and goes on the run through a devastated Germany in search of the witnesses who can clear him, with her help. But the witnesses begin to die apparently accidental deaths shortly before he finds them...

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