The Restless Night

The Restless Night (1958)

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1958: during the Russian campaign, a military priest is called upon to assist Private Baranowski, who has been sentenced to death for desertion, on his last night. It is also the last night before the departure for Stalingrad, which the soldiers know means certain death. The priest leaves his room to a captain so that he can meet his fiancée one last time. He himself remains in Baranowski's cell and struggles with his conscience and his emotion - even more so when he learns that the young doomed man committed desertion out of love. But the execution is carried out, and a member of the firing squad finds only cynical words for the soldier's fate.

Director: Falk Harnack

Casts

	Ulla Jacobsson as Melanie
	Bernhard Wicki as Priest Brunner
	Hansjörg Felmy as Fedor Baranowski
	Anneli Sauli as Ljuba
	Erik Schumann as Hauptmann von Arnim
	Werner Hinz as Oberleutnant Ernst
	Albert Bessler as
	Peter Esser as Zahlmeister
	Karl-Heinz Kreienbaum as
	Richard Münch as Kriegsgerichtsrat
	Joseph Offenbach as Untersuchungsrichter
	Werner Peters as
	Willem Holsboer as
	Emmerich Schrenk as
	Benno Gellenbeck as
	Werner Völger as
	Wolfgang Gruner as
	Erik von Loewis as
	Otto Friebel as
	Manfred Meurer as

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