The Devil's General (1955)
Drama
War
Curt Jurgens stars as a courageous Luftwaffe officer. Jurgens loves the service, even though he barely tolerates the Hitler regime. Sickened by wartime Nazi atrocities, Jurgens renounces his government, and is imprisoned and tortured as a result. Once released, the general takes pity on a downtrodden Jewish family. This isolated act of kindness is a point in his favor when Jurgens stands before Satan himself for his final judgment. The Devil's General was based on an immensely successful postwar play by German author Carl Zuckmeyer.
Cast
Gen. Harry Harras
Dorothea 'Diddo' Geiss
Hauptsturmführer Zernick
Kellner Detlev
Lyra Schöppke
Polizei-Fotograf
Frau Korrianke
Kleinschmidt, Görings Fahrer
SS-Wachtmeister
Theaterregisseur Rösler
Waltraut 'Pützchen' Mohrungen
SS-Gruppenführer Schmidt-Lausitz
Ingenieur Karl Oderbruch
Leutnant Hartmann
Hauptmann Lüttjohann
Otto Korrianke, Fahrer von Harras
Kammersängerin Olivia Geiss
Oberst Friedrich Eilers
Hauptmann Pfundtmayer
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