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The Fair (1960)
Directed by Wolfgang Staudte
Overview
In 1959, in a small German village, the annual fair is set up. When a carousel is fixed firmly in the ground, a fair worker discovers a skeleton, a steel helmet, and a machine gun. The skeleton belongs to Robert Mertens, a plain soldier, who deserted in 1944 und flew to his home village. But when he arrived, no one wanted to help him, neither his former friends nor the minister, or even his own parents.
Length 102 minutes
Actors
Juliette Mayniel | Götz George | Hans Mahnke | Wolfgang Reichmann | Manja Behrens | Fritz Schmiedel | Erica Schramm | Elisabeth Goebel | Benno Hoffmann | Irmgard Kleber | Hansi Jochmann | Rudolf Birkemeyer | Raidar Müller-Elmau | Horst Niendorf