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No Way Back (Weg ohne Umkehr)
Berlin 1953: A Soviet engineer slowly but surely recognizes advantages of freedom and flees to the west.
Victor Vicas was born in 1918 in Moscow and died in 1985 Paris. A selection of his films includes: The Invisible Ink (1950), No Way Back (Weg ohne Umkehr, 1953), Herr ueber Leben und Tod (1954), The Wayward Bus (1957), Jack & Jenny (1963), Samantha (TV, 1981), among others.
Genre Drama
Category Feature Film Cinema
Year of Production 1953
Director Victor Vicas
Screenplay Gerhard T. Buchholz, Victor Vicas
Director of Photography Klaus von Rautenfeld
Producer Gerhard T. Buchholz
Production Companies Occident Film, Trans-Rhein Film
Principal Cast Ivan Desny, Ruth Niehaus, René Deltgen, Karl John, Lila Kedrova
Length 95 min
Format b&w
Original Version German
Subtitled Versions English
Awards German Film Award 1954
Category Feature Film Cinema
Year of Production 1953
Director Victor Vicas
Screenplay Gerhard T. Buchholz, Victor Vicas
Director of Photography Klaus von Rautenfeld
Producer Gerhard T. Buchholz
Production Companies Occident Film, Trans-Rhein Film
Principal Cast Ivan Desny, Ruth Niehaus, René Deltgen, Karl John, Lila Kedrova
Length 95 min
Format b&w
Original Version German
Subtitled Versions English
Awards German Film Award 1954