Potato farmer, Fritz, moves to Wild West with his fellow German immigrants. Read More »
Tag Archives: Hardy Krüger
The One That Got Away (1957) Roy Ward Baker, Hardy Krüger, Colin Gordon, Michael Goodliffe
This is the true story of Oberleutnant Franz von Werra, the only German prisoner of war to escape from imprisonment in Britain during the Second World War. Read More »
Franciscan of Bourges (1968) Claude Autant-Lara, Hardy Krüger, Béatrix Dussane, Jean-Pierre Dorat
Albert is a Franciscan monk and a medical orderly at a monastery in France. Read More »
The Fox of Paris (1957) Paul May, Martin Held, Marianne Koch, Hardy Krüger
One of the few WW2 films that indeed had something to tell. And probably it still has to tell something, as it concerns a subject that is not very well publicly known. Read More »
Bachelor of Hearts (1958) Wolf Rilla, Hardy Krüger, Sylvia Syms, Ronald Lewis, Comedy
German scholar Wolf Hauser arrives for a year at Cambridge. Apart from his studies he tries to muck in with the very English non-academic goings-on while romancing pretty Girton-girl Ann. Read More »
Hatari! (1962) Howard Hawks, John Wayne, Elsa Martinelli, Hardy Krüger, Action, Adventure, Drama
John Wayne and his ensemble cast cavort over the African landscape filling orders from zoos for wild animals. Read More »
Bitka na Neretvi / The Battle of Neretva (1969) Veljko Bulajic, Yul Brynner, Hardy Krüger, Franco Nero, Drama, War
Battle on Neretva known as the ”fourth offensive” the most humane battle in World War II led by Yugoslav partisans. In January 1943 German army, afraid of Allied invasion of Balkans, launched great offensive against Yugoslav Partisans in Western Bosnia.
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Les dimanches de Ville d’Avray / Sundays and Cybele (1962) Serge Bourguignon
After killing a child on a routine bombing mission in Vietnam, Pierre suffers from delayed stress and partial amnesia. Returning to France, he lives like a vegetable until he meets a young girl who has been dumped by her father at a boarding school. Posing as her father, Pierre contrives to meet the girl every Sunday, to play with her and perhaps recover his memory. The innocent friendship is misread by nearly everyone, even people who know Pierre well.
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L’espion / The Defector (1966) Raoul Lévy
Montgomery Cliff (in his last role) plays James Bower, an American physicist visiting West Germany who’s recruited by a shady CIA agent, named Adam, to help them with the defection of a Russian scientist. But an East German secret agent, named Peter Heinzeman, learns of Bower’s meeting with Adam and threatens Bower to mind his own business, while Bower learns of a back story to all this involving stolen microfilm that each side wants.
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