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The Man Between

Terror! Vice! Violence! He stopped at nothing!

7.1 / 10

100 minutes

1953-11-18

Russian

GB

Actors :

Claire Bloom, James Mason, Hildegard Knef, Geoffrey Toone, Hilde Sessak, Aribert Wäscher, Ernst Schröder, Dieter Krause, Karl John, Ljuba Welitsch, Reinhard Kolldehoff, Frederick Schiller, Emile Stemmler

Description

A British woman on a visit to post-war Berlin is caught up in an espionage ring smuggling secrets into and out of the Eastern Bloc.

Reviews

CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

9/25/2022, 8:51:46 AM

Very much in the vein of Carol Reed's similar cold war thriller "The Third Man" (1949), this is a gritty and characterful story set in Berlin just before the Soviet Union imposed travel restrictions. This time, the Communists kidnap "Susanne" (Claire Bloom) - she happens to be the sister of British officer "Martin" (Geoffrey Toone) and we are now presented with an intriguing and internecine series...