Night Train to Munich (1940)

90 min · Thriller, War Film, drama film, spy film, war film

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2025-09 to 2026-08

Directors

Carol Reed

Cast

Margaret Lockwood, Rex Harrison, Paul Henreid, Basil Radford, Naunton Wayne, James Harcourt, Felix Aylmer, Wyndham Goldie, Roland Culver, Raymond Huntley, Eliot Makeham

The story

As German forces take over Czechoslovakia in March 1939, Axel Bomasch, a Czechoslovak scientist working on a new type of armour-plate, is flown to Britain. Bomasch's daughter, Anna, is arrested before she can reach the airport and sent to a concentration camp, where she is interrogated by Nazis who are pursuing her father. Anna refuses to cooperate.

Catalogue themes and tags

Arrest, Concentration Camp, Czech, Czech Republic, Equation, Flucht, Nazi Zeit, Nazis, World War 2, prague, Thriller, War film, Black-and-white, Spy

Genres

Thriller, War Film, drama film, spy film, war film

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