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kino lorber Germany berlin post war trapped escape double agent Spies russians Cold War black and white

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The Man Between (1953)

Directed by Carol Reed

Crime | Drama | Film Noir

Overview

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.

Rated NR | Length 100 minutes

Actors

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

Viewing History (seen 1 time)

Viewing Notes

A nice companion piece to Reed’s THE THIRD MAN, which shares the same post-war occupied Berlin and uses the city’s locations to great effect.

James Mason and Claire Bloom are great together and Mason is a particular standout as the titular character, caught between the West and the East in pre-Berlin Wall days.

It looks like most of the exteriors were shot in Berlin and Reed does a good job of mixing the rebuilt Berlin with the still-in-rubble Berlin and getting a good sense of both the East and West sides before there was a wall separating the two.

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