Duped Till Doomsday

Duped Till Doomsday (1957)

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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.

Director: Kurt Jung-Alsen

Casts

	Rudolf Ulrich as Corporal Wagner Karl
	Wolfgang Kieling as Private Lick
	Erich Brauer as Hauptfeldwebel
	Hans-Joachim Martens as Upper gunner Paulun Thomas
	Walther Suessenguth as captain von der Saale
	Renate Küster as Angelika, his daughter
	Peter Kiwitt as General of the Waffen-SS Lick
	Hermann Dieckhoff as Division commander
	Kurt Ulrich as lieutenant
	Hannes Fischer as Kitchen sergeant
	Helga Raumer as Innkeeper daughter
	Paul Pfingst as SS man
	Carlo Kluge as SS man
	Werner Senftleben as Sergeant in the shooting range
	Hermann Mayer-Falkow as Major in the shooting range
	Horst Kube as Soldier in the telephone exchange
	Wolfgang Lippert as Voss
	Gerhard Lau as Gas, sergeant
	Lu Marek as russian peasant woman
	Siegfried Weil as
	Walter Wickenhauser as

Crew