Lebende Ware

Lebende Ware

97 mins | Drama, War | June 10, 1966

In 1944, SS-Obersturmbannführer Becher arrives in Budapest in order to obtain material for the Waffen-SS. At the same time, he starts to gather private property by offering an insidious choice to the corporation′s Jewish majority shareholder, Dr. Chorin: Either Chorin assigns the company to Becker "on his own free will" – thereby obtaining the permission to travel abroad - or he his family will end up in an extermination camp.

Lebende Ware

97 mins | Drama, War | June 10, 1966

Lebende Ware
In 1944, SS-Obersturmbannführer Becher arrives in Budapest in order to obtain material for the Waffen-SS. At the same time, he starts to gather private property by offering an insidious choice to the corporation′s Jewish majority shareholder, Dr. Chorin: Either Chorin assigns the company to Becker "on his own free will" – thereby obtaining the permission to travel abroad - or he his family will end up in an extermination camp.
Producers DEFA
Original title Lebende Ware
Directors Wolfgang Luderer
Writers Friedrich Karl Kaul, Wolfgang Luderer, Walter Jupé

Cast

Horst Schulze

as Becher

Hannjo Hasse

as Eichmann

Marion van de Kamp

as Gräfin

Rolf Hoppe

as Grabau

Siegfried Weiß

as Ferenc Chorin

Wolfgang Greese

as Rudolf Kastner

Peter Sturm

as Mahlmann

Erika Pelikowsky

as Frau Mahlmann

Ivan Malré

as Endre

Thomas Weisgerber

as Hermann Krumey

Hans Ulrich Laufer

as von Mauthner

Kurt Steingraf

as von Freudiger

Hannes Fischer

as Dieter Wisliceny

Wolfram Handel

as Joel Brand

Albert Hetterle

as Rathey

Wolfgang Luderer

as SS-Oberscharführer

Hans-Hartmut Krüger

as SS-Unterscharführer

Werner Dissel

as Erno Brody

Horst Preusker

as Franke-Griebsch

Peter Herden

as Wolf

Rolf Ripperger

as SS-Oberscharführer