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DER ÜBERLÄUFER

Directed by Academy Award®-winner Florian Gallenberger from Siegfried Lenz’s international bestseller, DER ÜBERLÄUFER is set in the summer of 1944. Walter Proska is about to return to the Eastern Front when his train is blown up by partisans. Together with a scattered bunch of German soldiers, cut off from the front, he awaits certain death while the commands of his superior officer become more and more senseless and inhuman. Proska’s encounter with the young Polish partisan Wanda and his friendship with his comrade Kürschner increasingly make him doubt his oath of allegiance. As the Red Army draws closer, Proska becomes a prisoner of war and can save himself only by defecting to the enemy.

© Beta Film/Krzysztof Wiktor
  • Genre
    Drama, History, Literature, Love Story
  • CATEGORY
    TV Movie
  • DIRECTOR
    Florian Gallenberger
  • SCREENPLAY
    Bernd Lange, Florian Gallenberger
  • CAST
    Jannis Niewöhner, Malgorzata Mikolajczak, Sebastian Urzendowsky, Rainer Bock, Florian Lukas, Katharina Schüttler, Ulrich Tukur, Bjarne Mädel, Leonie Benesch, Adam Venhaus, Alexander Beyer, Janusz Cichocki, Mathias Hermann, Shenja Lacher
  • PRODUCERS
    Stefan Raiser, Felix Zackor
  • PRODUCTION COMPANY
    Dreamtool Entertainment
  • LANGUAGE
    German
  • SALES
    Beta Film
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