Duel with Death

Duel with Death
Belgian release poster
Directed by	Paul May
Written by	Paul May Georg Wilhelm Pabst
Produced by	Georg Wilhelm Pabst
Starring	Rolf von Nauckhoff Annelies Reinhold Fritz Hinz-Fabricius
Cinematography	Helmuth Ashley
Music by	Alfred Schneider
Production company	Pabst-Kiba-Filmproduktionsgesellschaft
Distributed by	Union Film
Release date	20 July 1949
Running time	114 minutes
Country	Austria
Language	German

Duel with Death (German: Duell mit dem Tod) is a 1949 Austrian war drama film directed by Paul May and starring Rolf von Nauckhoff, Annelies Reinhold, and Fritz Hinz-Fabricius. The film portrays the Austrian resistance to Nazi Germany during the Second World War.

The film's sets were designed by the art director Otto Pischinger.

It premiered at the Locarno Film Festival in July 1949 before going on general release in Austria that December.

Synopsis

A Professor is brought before an Allied military court to explain apparently incriminating evidence against him. This gives him a chance to recount what really happened during the war years.

Cast

• Rolf von Nauckhoff as Dr. Ernst Romberg
• Annelies Reinhold as Maria Romberg
• Fritz Hinz-Fabricius as Pfarrer Menhardt
• Hans Dreßler as Defense lawyer Dr. Hallmann
• Louis V. Arco as Gerichtsvorsitzender
• Ernst Waldbrunn as Franz Lang
• Maria Eis as Frau Lang
• Erich Auer as Geisler
• Martin King as Ziegler
• Manfred Schuster as Beierle
• Hannes Schiel as Rainer, Standartenführer der SS
• Josef Krastel as Kaindl
• Emmerich Schrenk as Dietz, Sturmführer der SS
• Otto Schmöle as Präsident des deutschen Feldkriegsgerichts
• Ulrich Bettac
• Erich Dörner
• Heinz Moog

Bibliography

• Fritsche, Maria. Homemade Men in Postwar Austrian Cinema: Nationhood, Genre and Masculinity. Berghahn Books, 2013.

External links

• Duel with Death at IMDb