Overview

France 1944: American pilot Philip Sturgess is shot down but found by a resistance group. In the neighborhood Sturgess meets another American and shortly thereafter the British Major Barton, called “Reiher”. He claims to have fled a German prison camp. Shortly before leaving for Spain to escape the Nazis, Sturgess discovers that Barton has written a letter to Germany. This confirms the suspicion that he could be a German spy…

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Cast

Peter van Eyck

Der Reiher

Marie Versini

Marie

Walter Rilla

Pierre, Maries Vater

Fritz Wepper

Philip

Elfriede Kuzmany

Madame Claire

Gernot Duda