The Lost One (1951) Der Verlorene
The Lost One (1951)
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Genre: Crime, Film-Noir, Thriller
DVDRip | MKV | 696x568 | x264 @ 2000 Kbps | 93 min | 1,45 Gb
Audio: Deutsch AC3 2.0 @ 224 Kbps | Subs: English (embedded in MKV)
Genre: Crime, Film-Noir, Thriller
Director: Peter Lorre
Writers: Axel Eggebrecht (screenplay), Peter Lorre (novel)
Stars: Peter Lorre, Karl John, Helmuth Rudolph
German scientist murders his fiancée during World War II when he learns that she has been selling the results of his secret research to the enemy.
Lorre, perhaps like Charles Laughton, had only this chance to direct. Like Laughton, Lorre made an excellent film, and encountered no problems whatsoever concerning complete control of the film, unlike Laughton, whose film was given a crude ending as a gift from the studio. This is a beautiful, poetic movie about horrible subjects, and the complicated reactions and perspectives one will have about these characters, especially Lorre's, teaches us much about Germany, the Nazis and aspects of the war in general. While there are passing similarities in content to Wilder's A Foreign Affair, Die Verlorne is so much the better movie, so much more poetic (perhaps than anything Wilder ever did), and so moving, in brutal ways, that it just has to be considered one of the best and most powerful and most depressing films ever made.
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The Lost One (1951) Der Verlorene
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