''Stop Train 349'' (german: Verspätung in Marienborn, french: Le train de Berlin est arrêté, it, Un treno è fermo a Berlino), is a 1963 internationally co-produced

drama film In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. Drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular super ...

directed by

Rolf Hädrich Rolf Hädrich (24 April 1931 – 29 October 2000) was a German film director and screenwriter. He directed 39 films between 1958 and 1989. His film ''Verspätung in Marienborn'' (US title: ''Stop Train 349'') was entered into the 13th Berlin ...

. It was released in the US in 1964 by Allied Artists. It was entered into the

13th Berlin International Film Festival The 13th annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from 21 June to 2 July 1963. The Golden Bear was awarded ''ex aequo'' to the Italian film ''Il diavolo'' directed by Gian Luigi Polidoro and Japanese film '' Bushidô zankoku monogatari ...

. Screenwriter Will Tremper won the Film Award in Gold of the 1964

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. The film's sets were designed by the art director

Dieter Bartels Dieter Bartels (28 March 1920 – 3 September 2010) was a German art director. He is sometimes credited as F. Dieter Bartels.Sweeney p.190 Selected filmography * '' Victoria and Her Hussar'' (1954) * '' Island of the Dead'' (1955) * '' Lost Chi ...

Plot

An East Berlin refugee trying to escape to West Berlin sneaks aboard a train run by the US military and causes an international incident.

Cast

José Ferrer José Vicente Ferrer de Otero y Cintrón (January 8, 1912 – January 26, 1992) was a Puerto Rican actor and director of stage, film and television. He was one of the most celebrated and esteemed Hispanic American actors during his lifetime, w ...

as Cowan the Reporter * Sean Flynn as Lt. Novak *

Nicole Courcel Nicole Marie Jeanne Andrieu (21 October 1931 – 25 June 2016), better known as Nicole Courcel, was a French actress who achieved popularity through the 1950s and 1960s, though she is mostly unknown outside of France. Born in Saint-Cloud, in ...

as Nurse Kathy *

Jess Hahn Jesse Beryle Hahn (October 29, 1921June 29, 1998) was an American-French character actor who mostly starred in French films. Biography After serving with the Marines in the Second World War, he moved to France in 1949 and took French citizen ...

as Sgt. Torre * Yossi Yadin as Maj. Menschikov (as Yoseph Yadin) * Hans-Joachim Schmiedel as Banner *

Christiane Schmidtmer Christiane Schmidtmer (24 December 1939 – 13 March 2003) was a German actress, fashion model, nude model, and memoirist. Biography Early life Christiane Schmidtmer was born in Mannheim, Germany, to Gertrud and Jakob Schmidtmer on Christmas ...

as Karin (as Christiane Schmidmer) * Joy Aston as Mrs. Abramson * Lothar Mann as East German Conductor *

Arthur Brauss Arthur Brauss (born 24 July 1936) is a German actor, perhaps best known for his work in Sam Peckinpah's ''Cross of Iron''. Brauss was born in Augsburg, Germany. Partial filmography * ''Stop Train 349'' (1963, directed by Rolf Hädrich), as I.M ...

as I.M.P. (as Art Brauss) * Edward Meeks as Capt. Kolski * Fred Dur as Maj. Finnegan * Len Monroe as U.S. Soldier * Wolfgang Georgi as Russian Officer Gorski * Antonella Murgia as Teenager

Production

The film was originally known as ''Marienborn''. It was based on a true incident about an American train going to Berlin that was stopped in the Eastern sector and had a refugee removed.

References

External links

* (credits of the US version of the film, not the original version)
filmportal.de entry
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