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No Way Back (German: Weg ohne Umkehr) is a 1953 West German drama film directed by Victor Vicas and starring Ivan Desny, Ruth Niehaus and René Deltgen.[1] It was made at the height of the Cold War.

No Way Back
Directed by	Victor Vicas
Written by	Gregory Klimov (book) Gerhard T. Buchholz Victor Vicas Beate von Molo
Produced by	Gerhard T. Buchholz Stuart Schulberg
Starring	Ivan Desny Ruth Niehaus René Deltgen
Cinematography	Klaus von Rautenfeld
Edited by	Ira Oberberg
Music by	Hans-Martin Majewski
Production companies	Occident Film Produktion Trans-Rhein Film
Distributed by	Hamburg-Film Ring-Film
Release date	6 November 1953 (1953-11-06)
Running time	95 minutes
Country	Germany
Language	German

In 1945 following the Battle of Berlin, a Red Army officer is able to protect a young German woman he finds living in a cellar. Several years later he returns to the city as a civilian, finds her again and makes plans to flee from East to West Germany under the noses of the KGB.

Cast

• Ivan Desny as Michael Zorin aka Mischa
• Ruth Niehaus as Anna Brückner
• René Deltgen as Major Kazanow
• Karl John as Friedrich Schultz
• Lila Kedrova as Ljuba
• Serge Beloussow as Litvinski
• Leonid Pylajew as Wassilij
• Alf Marholm as Direktor Berger
• Erika Dannhoff
• John Haggerty as Steve McCullough
• Wolfgang Neuss as Comedian
• Herbert von Boxberger
• Bogislav von Heyden
• Reinhard Kolldeh

References

Bibliography

• Bock, Hans-Michael & Bergfelder, Tim. The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema. Berghahn Books, 2009.

External links

• No Way Back at IMDb

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