The Restless Night
movie

Released October 29, 1958
Overview
1958: during the Russian campaign, a military priest is called upon to assist Private Baranowski, who has been sentenced to death for desertion, on his last night. It is also the last night before the departure for Stalingrad, which the soldiers know means certain death. The priest leaves his room to a captain so that he can meet his fiancée one last time. He himself remains in Baranowski's cell and struggles with his conscience and his emotion - even more so when he learns that the young doomed man committed desertion out of love. But the execution is carried out, and a member of the firing squad finds only cynical words for the soldier's fate.
Cast

Ulla Jacobsson
as
Melanie

Bernhard Wicki
as
Priest Brunner

Hansjörg Felmy
as
Fedor Baranowski

Anneli Sauli
as
Ljuba

Erik Schumann
as
Hauptmann von Arnim

Werner Hinz
as
Oberleutnant Ernst

Albert Bessler
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Peter Esser
as
Zahlmeister

Karl-Heinz Kreienbaum

Richard Münch
as
Kriegsgerichtsrat

Joseph Offenbach
as
Untersuchungsrichter

Werner Peters
Crew

Falk Harnack
as
Director
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Horst Budjuhn
as
Writer
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Albrecht Goes
as
Novel
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Eva Kroll
as
Editor
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Friedl Behn-Grund
as
Director of Photography
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Hans-Martin Majewski
as
Original Music Composer
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Georg Jaun
as
Editor
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Franz Bi
as
Set Decoration
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Bruno Monden
as
Set Decoration
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Walter Kraatz
as
Costume Design
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Vera Otto
as
Costume Design

Eberhard Itzenplitz
as
Assistant Director