The Sonnenbrucks (1951)
Professor Sonnenbruck is a scientist who is not particularly interested in politics. Even the meeting in 1943 with his former assistant Peters does not change him. He does not betray Peters, who has escaped from a concentration camp, but that is already enough for him. But after the war Sonnenrbruck gets into a conflict of conscience. He thought that science was finally free of politics again only to find the opposite happening at his university in Göttingen. A medical congress in the GDR brings him together with Peters, who is working on a major research contract there. Sonnenbruck decides to visit Peters.
Director: Georg C. Klaren
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Eduard von Winterstein as Prof. Walter Sonnenbruck |
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Maly Delschaft as Bertha Sonnenbruck |
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Ursula Burg as Ruth Sonnenbruck |
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Raimund Schelcher as Dozent Joachim Peters |
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Harry Riebauer as Student |
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Herbert Köfer as Christian Föns |
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Käte Alving as Agnes Sörensen |
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Friedrich Maurer as Tourterelle |
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Kurt Mikulski as Anton |
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Hans-Georg Rudolph as Ministerialrat Behnke |
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Hans Joachim Schölermann as Rektor |
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Irene Korb as |
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Aleksandra Śląska as |
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Horst Preusker as |
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Aribert Grimmer as |
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Rudolf Fleck as |
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Albert Venohr as |
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Helmuth Hinzelmann as |
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Hans Rose as |
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Hilde Sontag as |
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Kurt-Otto Fritsch as |
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Angelika Hurwicz as |
| Sound | Ernst Roters | Original Music Composer |
| Camera | Fritz Lehmann | Director of Photography |
| Directing | Georg C. Klaren | Director |
| Writing | Kurt Maetzig | Writer |
| Writing | Georg C. Klaren | Writer |
| Editing | Friedel Welsandt | Editor |
| Writing | Leon Kruczkowski | Story |