The Last Ten Days

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The Last Ten Days
The Last Ten Days FilmPoster.jpeg
American film poster
Directed by G. W. Pabst
Written by
Produced by Carl Szokoll
Starring Albin Skoda
Oskar Werner
Lotte Tobisch
Cinematography Günther Anders
Edited by Herbert Taschner
Music by Erwin Halletz
Production
company
Cosmopol-Film
Distributed byCosmopol-Film
Columbia Film
Release date
  • 14 April 1955 (1955-04-14)
Running time
113 minutes
Countries
  • Austria
  • West Germany
LanguageGerman

The Last Ten Days (German : Der letzte Akt, The Final Act) is a 1955 Austrian-West German drama film directed by G. W. Pabst. [1] It was the first film in post-World War II Germany to feature the character of Adolf Hitler. [2] It follows him and others in what were the last days of the Third Reich.

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It was shot at the Sievering Studios in Vienna and at Baden bei Wien. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Otto Pischinger, Wolf Witzemann and Werner Schlichting.

Cast

See also

References

  1. Crowther, Bosley (2012). "NY Times: The Last Ten Days". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times . Archived from the original on 22 October 2012. Retrieved 13 September 2009.
  2. "Opening Pandora's Box". The Criterion Collection. 2006.