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
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.
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...