The House on Telegraph Hill (1951)

Directors

Robert Wise

Cast

Richard Basehart, Valentina Cortese, William Lundigan, Fay Baker, Gordon Gebert, Steven Geray

The story

Polish Viktoria Kowalska lost her home and her husband in the German occupation of Poland and is imprisoned in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. She befriends another prisoner, Karin Dernakova, who dreams of reuniting with her young son, Christopher, sent to live in San Francisco with a wealthy aunt. Karin dies shortly before the camp is liberated; seeking a better life, Viktoria uses Karin's papers to assume her identity, destroying her own papers.

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