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The Last Ten Days

Der Letzte Akt

1955
Germany
feature film - War
117 min. (3200 m.)
no shooting in Berlin / Berlin story line

Cast

Actor/-ess: Albin Skoda (Adolf Hitler); Oskar Werner (Hauptmann Wüst); Erik Frey (General Burgdorf); Herbert Herbe (General Krebs); Kurt Eilers (Martin Bormann); Hannes Schiel (SS-Obersturmbannführer Günsche); Willy Krause (Joseph Goebbels); Otto Schmöle (Generaloberst Jodl); Hermann Erhardt (Hermann Göring); Leopold Hainisch (Generalfeldmarschall Keitel); Otto Woegerer (Generalfeldmarschall von Greim); Eric Suckmann (Heinrich Himmler); Walter Regelsberger (Major Venner); Julius Jonak (Hermann Fegelein); Gerd Zöhling (Richard); Erland Erlandsen (Albert Speer); John Van Dreelen (Major Brinkmann); Ernst Waldbrunn (Astrologe); Guido Wieland (Doctor); Franz Messner (Otto); Otto Gutschy (Franz); Lotte Tobisch (Eva Braun); Helga Dohrn (Magda Goebbels); Elisabeth Epp (Mother Richards); Herta Angst (Jutta); Inge Kurzbauer; Eduard Köck; Michael Janisch; Raoul Retzer; Otto Kerry; Eduard Spieß; Otto Loewe; Ernst Pröckl; Peter Holzer; Martha Wallner; Lilly Stepanek

Direction

Director: Georg Wilhelm Pabst

Assistant director: Peter Pabst

Writing

Screenplay: Fritz Habeck; Michael A. Musmanno (novel 'Ten Days to Die')

Based on: Erich Maria Remarque (Unpublished Draft)

Camera & Light

Director of photography: Günther Anders

Camera operator: Hans Staudinger

Decor

Production design: Werner Schlichting; Otto Pischinger

Cutting & Mixing

Editing: Herbert Taschner

Sound: Otto Untersalmberger

Music

Arrangement: Erwin Halletz

Production

Producer: Carl Szokoll

Location manager: Ferdinand Kollhanek; Wolfgang Birk

Companies

Production company: Cosmopol-Film GmbH