Morituri

Morituri

88 mins | Drama, War | Sept. 24, 1948

As the end of the Second World War approaches and the Soviet Red Army is advancing, a group of concentration camp inmates is helped to escape by a Polish doctor. They hide in a wood where they meet other fugitives, who have been there for months, constantly in fear of being discovered. Out of fear of the German army patrols, they do not dare to leave the forest, even as the food supplies run low.

Morituri

88 mins | Drama, War | Sept. 24, 1948

Morituri
As the end of the Second World War approaches and the Soviet Red Army is advancing, a group of concentration camp inmates is helped to escape by a Polish doctor. They hide in a wood where they meet other fugitives, who have been there for months, constantly in fear of being discovered. Out of fear of the German army patrols, they do not dare to leave the forest, even as the food supplies run low.
IMDb rating 6.8
Producers Central Cinema Company Film (CCC)
Original title Morituri
Directors Walter Wischniewsky, Eugen York
Writers Gustav Kampendonk, Artur Brauner

Cast

Walter Richter

as Dr. Leon Bronek

Winnie Markus

as Maria Bronek

Lotte Koch

as Lydia, die Polin

Josef Sieber

as Eddy

Carl-Heinz Schroth

as Armand

Catja Görna

as Stascha

Hilde Körber

as die Irre

Klaus Kinski

as Dutch prisoner

Willy Prager

as Vater Simon