Roses for the Prosecutor
movie
Released September 24, 1959
Overview
April 1945. Because he stole two bars of chocolate, the soldier Rudi is sentenced to death by the court-martial judge Dr. Schramm. Rudi manages to escape from the firing squad at the last minute, and since the end of the war has been making a meager living as a street peddler. Years later, Dr. Schramm is now a respected public prosecutor. By chance, he runs into Rudi one day on the street. Afraid that Rudi will blow the whistle on him, Dr. Schramm wants to scare him out of town. He has Rudi arrested and bullied by the police.
Cast
Martin Held
as
Oberstaatsanwalt Dr. Wilhelm Schramm
Walter Giller
as
Rudi Kleinschmidt
Ingrid van Bergen
as
Lissy Flemming
Camilla Spira
as
Hildegard Schramm
Werner Peters
as
Otto Kugler
Ralf Wolter
as
Hessel
Wolfgang Preiss
as
Generalstaatsanwalt
Paul Hartmann
as
Landgerichtspräsident Diefenbach
Wolfgang Wahl
as
Defense Counsel
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Roland Kaiser
as
Schramms Stiefsohn Werner
Werner Finck
as
Haase
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Burghard Ortgies
as
Manfred Schramm
Crew
Wolfgang Staudte
as
Director
Wolfgang Staudte
as
Idea
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Erich Claunigk
as
Director of Photography
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Heinz Willeg
as
Executive Producer
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Walter Haag
as
Production Design
Raimund Rosenberger
as
Original Music Composer
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Hans Kutzner
as
Production Design
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Klaus Eckstein
as
Editor
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Kurt Ulrich
as
Producer
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Walter Salemann
as
Costume Design
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Jerzy Macc
as
Assistant Director
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Fredy Arnold
as
Makeup Artist