Duped Till Doomsday

Synopsis

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.

Main Cast

Rudolf Ulrich

Corporal Wagner Karl

Age : 75 | Popularity : 21%

Wolfgang Kieling

Private Lick

Age : 61 | Popularity : 19%

Erich Brauer

Hauptfeldwebel

Age : N/A | Popularity : 5%

Hans-Joachim Martens

Upper gunner Paulun Thomas

Age : N/A | Popularity : 1%

Walther Suessenguth

captain von der Saale

Age : 64 | Popularity : 7%

Renate Küster

Angelika, his daughter

Age : N/A | Popularity : 17%

Peter Kiwitt

General of the Waffen-SS Lick

Age : N/A | Popularity : 1%

Hermann Dieckhoff

Division commander

Age : N/A | Popularity : 1%

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Directing	Director	Kurt Jung-Alsen
Editing	Editor	Wally Gurschke
Writing	Writer	Kurt Bortfeldt
	Novel	Franz Fühmann
Sound	Music	Günter Klück
	Sound	Hubert Kübler
Costume & Make-Up	Costume Design	Ingeborg Wilfert
Art	Art Direction	Artur Günther
Camera	Director of Photography	Walter Fehdmer
Department	Role	Name

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