I watched several other movies on the same topic like "The Search", "The Devil makes three", "A Foreign Affair", "I was a male War Bride", "The Prize of Gold", "Germania anno zero" and "Hallo Fraeulein" (with Peter Van Eyck).
Could sombebody recommend more movies on that topic, please?
Try a movie made about the same time, shot among the ruins of Germany.
The film is called "Decision Before Dawn," starring Richard Basehart, Oscar Werner, Gary Merrill, and Hildegard Neff. Also in the movie is German actor O.F. Hasse, who was "Stieber, the scrounger" in Big Lift, and who is Colonel Von Ecker in DBD, who commands a thrown-together brigade of panzer-infantry within the XI Panzer Corps.
The story line involves a true story of a special intelligence unit attached to the American forces deployed along the upper Rhine in early 1945 called "G-2 SSS Seventh Army." It was developed, as our forces crossed the German border toward the end of the war, to seek out tactical information about enemy forces deployed against the Allies on their front. With the surprise attack during the Battle of the Bulge fresh in everyone's mind, US Seventh Army General Patch didn't want a repeat of that debacle in his sector.
It was decided that selected German POWs who wanted to work for the US would be trained in espionage trade-craft and then parachuted back behind German lines to find out specific troop and armor movements of the Wehrmacht.
Great movie...lots of action...filmed in gritty black-and-white...nominated for 1951 Best Picture Oscar...and one of my favorites:
Decision Before Dawn, available on DVD.
CmdrCody
Cody, I last saw 'Decision..." nearly 30 years ago, when I was going to college in Greece--I was suitably impressed. It was actually shocking to see the measures the Wehrmacht has to take to keep order (having to hang a senior NCO for desertion to take care of his family); The General clearly took no joy in it but he felt he needed to make an example of the poor guy. And in spite of the Third Reich being little more than rubble, there were still MPs looking for deserters to hang and the vulture-like secret police looking for spies. Oh and, Oskar Werner did a terrific job at the conflicted POW 'Happy'.
share"Decision Before Dawn" is tremendous. Another interesting film from this era is "Berlin Express", starring Robert Ryan and Merle Oberon, with scenes shot in Frankfurt and Berlin.
shareI have seen all the films mentioned except "PRIZE OF GOLD",will check it out.
You might find a British film called "FRIEDA" interesting,the plot is that a British ex POW brings a polish girl he met while escaping back to Britain.
But things are more complicated than that.
It is not really clear what you mean by "that topic" so I will guess that you mean life in post war Germany. If so I have 5 excellent recommendations for you. All of these films have helped me understand the German WW2 experience better.
Lore ... 2012 German/British/Australian ... 7.1 IMDB rating
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1996310/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
The Downfall of Berlin: Anonyma ... 2008 German ... 7.1 IMDB rating
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1035730/?ref_=fn_al_tt_5
Twin Sisters ... 2002 Dutch ... 7.5 IMDB rating
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0322674/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
Generation War ... 2013 German Mini-series ... 8.5 IMDB rating
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1883092/?ref_=nv_sr_1
Heimat: A Chronicle of Germany ... 1984 German Mini-series ... 8.9 IMDB rating
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087400/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
Thank you, Chrissso.
I haven't heard of any of them and will check them out.
I also meant movies from that time frame, ost WW II, filmed in the mid to late 1940's.
Other than "A Foreign Affair" and "The Best Years of Our Lives" not too many come to my mind.
Thank you,
Chrissie
What did that woman (he was going to marry) do that made him mad at the end, and walk away and not marry her? I didn't quite catch that.
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