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The Restless Night

1958: during the Russian campaign, a military priest is called upon to assist Private Baranowski, who has been sentenced to death for desertion, on his last night. It is also the last night before the departure for Stalingrad, which the soldiers know means certain death. The priest leaves his room to a captain so that he can meet his fiancée one last time. He himself remains in Baranowski's cell and struggles with his conscience and his emotion - even more so when he learns that the young doomed man committed desertion out of love. But the execution is carried out, and a member of the firing squad finds only cynical words for the soldier's fate.

Top Cast

  • Ulla Jacobsson

    Ulla Jacobsson

    Melanie

  • Bernhard Wicki

    Bernhard Wicki

    Priest Brunner

  • Hansjörg Felmy

    Hansjörg Felmy

    Fedor Baranowski

  • Anneli Sauli

    Anneli Sauli

    Ljuba

  • Erik Schumann

    Erik Schumann

    Hauptmann von Arnim

  • Werner Hinz

    Werner Hinz

    Oberleutnant Ernst

  • Albert Bessler

    Albert Bessler

  • Peter Esser

    Peter Esser

    Zahlmeister

  • Karl-Heinz Kreienbaum

    Karl-Heinz Kreienbaum

Overview

1958: during the Russian campaign, a military priest is called upon to assist Private Baranowski, who has been sentenced to death for desertion, on his last night. It is also the last night before the departure for Stalingrad, which the soldiers know means certain death. The priest leaves his room to a captain so that he can meet his fiancée one last time. He himself remains in Baranowski's cell and struggles with his conscience and his emotion - even more so when he learns that the young doomed man committed desertion out of love. But the execution is carried out, and a member of the firing squad finds only cynical words for the soldier's fate.

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