''Restless Night'' () is a 1958 West German

war War is an armed conflict between the armed forces of states, or between governmental forces and armed groups that are organized under a certain command structure and have the capacity to sustain military operations, or between such organi ...

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. The drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular ...

directed by

Falk Harnack Falk Harnack (2 March 1913 – 3 September 1991) was a German director and screenwriter. During Germany's Nazi era, he was also active with the German resistance to Nazism, German Resistance and toward the end of World War II, the partisans in Gr ...

and starring

Bernhard Wicki Bernhard Wicki (28 October 1919 – 5 January 2000) was an Austrian-Swiss actor, film director and screenwriter. He was a key figure in the revitalization of post-war German-language cinema, particularly in West Germany, and also directed se ...

Ulla Jacobsson Ulla Jacobsson (23 May 1929 – 20 August 1982) was a Swedish actress. She had the lead role in ''One Summer of Happiness'' (1951) and played the only female speaking role in the film ''Zulu (1964 film), Zulu'' (1964). Early life Jacobsson w ...

and

Hansjörg Felmy Hansjörg Felmy (born Hans-Jörg Hellmuth Felmy; 31 January 1931 – 24 August 2007) was a German actor. He appeared in 50 films and television shows between 1957 and 1995. Films like ''Der Stern von Afrika'' and ''Wir Wunderkinder'' made hi ...

.Parish p. 432 It is set on the Eastern Front during the

Second World War World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the wo ...

. It was partly shot at the

Wandsbek Studios The Wandsbek Studios are film production and television studios located in Wandsbek, a district of the German city of Hamburg. The complex was established in 1948 when Real Film, set up the previous year, acquired a site in Wandsbek for construc ...

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. The film's sets were designed by the

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Franz Bi Franz Bi (2 April 1899 – 25 December 1968) was a German art director.Giesen p.197 He worked on the set design of more than forty films during his career, often in collaboration with Bruno Monden. Selected filmography * ''The Rainer Case'' (1942 ...

and

Bruno Monden Bruno Monden (1900–1980) was a German art director. He designed the sets for several rubble films in the wake of the Second World War.Shandley p.217 Selected filmography * '' The Stars Shine'' (1938) * '' The Murderers Are Among Us'' (1946) * ' ...

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as Priest Brunner *

as Melanie *

as Fedor Baranowski * Anneli Sauli as Ljuba *

Erik Schumann Erik Schumann (15 February 1925 – 9 February 2007) was a German actor. He appeared in 100 films and television shows between 1942 and 1997. He was most successful during the 1950s and 1960s, when he played leading roles in several German f ...

as Hauptmann von Arnim *

Werner Hinz Werner Hinz (18 January 1903 – 10 February 1985) was a German film actor who appeared in 70 films between 1935 and 1984. In 1944, he was included on the ''Gottbegnadeten'' list created by Josef Goebbels. Between 1935 and 1945 he had rol ...

as Oberleutnant Ernst * Richard Münch as Kriegsgerichtsrat *

Werner Peters Werner Peters (7 July 1918 – 30 March 1971) was a German film actor. He appeared in 102 films between 1947 and 1971. Biography Peters was born in Werlitzsch, Kreis Delitzsch, Prussian Saxony, and died of a heart attack on a promotion to ...

as Major Kartuschke *

Paul Esser Paul Esser (24 April 1913 – 20 January 1988) was a German stage and television actor and voice actor. He is remembered for playing the lead role in the Sender Freies Berlin version of the detective series '' Tatort''. Esser was born in Ge ...

as Zahlmeister * Willem Holsboer *

Joseph Offenbach Joseph Offenbach (born ''Joseph Ziegler''; 28 December 1904 – 15 October 1971) was a German actor. He appeared in more than one hundred films from 1942 to 1969. Selected filmography References External links * * 1904 births 1 ...

as Untersuchungsrichter * Emmerich Schrenk * Benno Gellenbeck * Werner Völger * Wolfgang Gruner * Erik von Loewis * Albert Bessler * Otto Friebel * Manfred Meurer

References

Bibliography

* Parish, Robert. ''Film Actors Guide''. Scarecrow Press, 1977.

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