Roses for the Prosecutor

Roses for the Prosecutor (1959)

DramaComedy

April 1945. Because he stole two bars of chocolate, the soldier Rudi is sentenced to death by the court-martial judge Dr. Schramm. Rudi manages to escape from the firing squad at the last minute, and since the end of the war has been making a meager living as a street peddler. Years later, Dr. Schramm is now a respected public prosecutor. By chance, he runs into Rudi one day on the street. Afraid that Rudi will blow the whistle on him, Dr. Schramm wants to scare him out of town. He has Rudi arrested and bullied by the police.

Director: Wolfgang Staudte
Writer: George Hurdalek

Casts

	Martin Held as Oberstaatsanwalt Dr. Wilhelm Schramm
	Walter Giller as Rudi Kleinschmidt
	Ingrid van Bergen as Lissy Flemming
	Camilla Spira as Hildegard Schramm
	Werner Peters as Otto Kugler
	Ralf Wolter as Hessel
	Wolfgang Preiss as Generalstaatsanwalt
	Paul Hartmann as Landgerichtspräsident Diefenbach
	Wolfgang Wahl as Defense Counsel
	Roland Kaiser as Schramms Stiefsohn Werner
	Werner Finck as Haase
	Burghard Ortgies as Manfred Schramm
	Inge Meysel as Erna
	Wolfgang Neuss as Paul
	Wolfgang Müller as Karl
	Henry Lorenzen as Graumann
	Dieter Neckritz as Reporter

Crew