An American goes to pre-war Germany to find his mother and discovers her in a concentration camp. With the help of an American-born widowed countess he seeks to engineer her escape.
Acting
Conrad Veidt's Nazi is terrifyingly human
Direction
LeRoy squeezes horror from shadows and silence
Writing
Dialogue that whispers where others would scream
Director
Mervyn LeRoy
Norma Shearer
Countess Ruby von Treck
Robert Taylor
Mark Preysing
Conrad Veidt
General Kurt von Kolb
Alla Nazimova
Emmy Ritter
Felix Bressart
Fritz Keller
Albert Bassermann
Dr. Arthur Henning
Philip Dorn
Dr. Ditten
Edgar Barrier
Commissioner
Bonita Granville
Ursula
Elsa Bassermann
Mrs. Henning
Blanche Yurka
Nurse
Lisa Golm
Anna
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released June 1940, months before Pearl Harbor—Hollywood's early stand against isolationism that pissed off the German consulate.
Alla Nazimova (Emmy) was a silent film legend; this was her first talkie in seven years, and her final significant role.
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