The invisible web
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The invisible web |
| Original title | Night people |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language |
English German |
| Publishing year | 1954 |
| length | 96 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Nunnally Johnson |
| script | Nunnally Johnson W. R. Burnett (anonymous) |
| production | Nunnally Johnson |
| music | Cyril J. Mockridge |
| camera | Charles G. Clarke |
| cut | Dorothy Spencer |
| occupation | |
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The Invisible Net is an American agent film by Nunnally Johnson, set in West Berlin in 1953 . A number of well-known German actors, including Peter van Eyck and Marianne Koch, play alongside the American leading actors Gregory Peck and Broderick Crawford and the Swede Anita Björk .
action
Berlin in 1953, during the Cold War . The city is divided into four, west and east lie in wait and distrust each other. Suddenly, US soldier Corporal Johnny Leatherby is kidnapped behind the Iron Curtain by agents from the other side . Lt. Col. Steve Van Dyke of the US Military Police is assigned the case. Through his East Berlin contact "Hoffy" Hoffmeir, Van Dyke learns that Leatherby is now in the hands of the Soviets, who want to exchange him for a couple living in the west of the city. In order to increase the pressure on the western allies, the Russians temporarily close the entrances to Berlin (West). Colonel Van Dyke also receives pressure from the father of the kidnapped young soldier. This Charles Leatherby is a wealthy and influential industrialist from Ohio who, in his rough-and-tumble manner, wants to give his own people and thus Van Dyke a lot of steam. At home, the beefy Leatherby is used to everything dancing to its tune, and so he believes that it is only a question of the money that one has to offer the Russians in order to free his son. The fact that he bragged about his contact with a senator in the US Congress, whom he only had to call to speed things up, turned out to be counterproductive, as Van Dyke knew very well that things here in Berlin, at the interface between the two armed superpowers, run completely different.
Van Dyke visits a restaurant with Leatherby one evening, where the two people to be exchanged, a middle-aged pianist and her older, blind husband, provide the entertainment. Van Dyke wants to show Leatherby who he is so carelessly willing to sacrifice for his son as an exchange object. When the Americans want to arrest the couple for flimsy reasons, the two Germans try to kill themselves with strychnine . You will be admitted to the US military hospital in Berlin. Van Dyke's right-hand man, Eddie McCulloch, should take care of the matter. While the blind man is dying, Eddie learns that the woman is actually an English woman who immediately demands her own people from the British secret service in Berlin. The woman, previously only known as Mrs. Schindler, identifies herself as Rachel Cameron and says that she is the wife of a German Wehrmacht general named von Kratzenow who was once active in the resistance against Hitler. The kidnappers of the young Leatherby are in truth former Nazis who are now collaborating with the East German Communists and, for highly personal reasons, want to get the couple into their hands as “traitors to the Führer”. Mrs. Schindler alias Rachel Cameron also spied for the Western Allies in Germany during the war.
Soon it becomes clear to Colonel Van Dyke and the men around him that you can no longer trust anyone in this situation. Former enemies can become friends, and the allies of yesterday sometimes collaborate with their worst adversary of yesteryear. After some back and forth, Van Dyke tends to go into the dirty deal of the Soviets and swap the two Germans they want for Corporal Leatherby. But is this really the case, or does Steve Van Dyke not rather adapt to the practice of playing with a false bottom. In any case, Van Dyke turns on his East Berlin contact, Hoffy, with whom he once had a liaison, whereupon the behavior of his jealous secretary Ricky Cates gives cause to doubt Hoffy's loyalty. In fact, Miss Hoffmeir plays a double game and is the servant of two masters, the Americans and the Soviets. To perform the exchange and Leatherby Jr. Van Dyke then embarks on a more than daring maneuver in which he himself will play the leading role.
Production notes
The invisible network was created in the summer of 1953 in Berlin (West) (exterior photos) and in Munich-Geiselgasteig (studio photos). The premiere took place on March 11, 1954 in Omaha (Nebraska), the German premiere was on January 7, 1955.
The buildings were designed by Hanns H. Kuhnert and Theo Zwierski , the costumes were designed by Ursula Maes. Lutz Hengst was assistant director, Lionel Newman musical director.
Manufacturing costs were approximately $ 1.25 million and North American revenues were $ 2.15 million.
Jed Harris and Tom Reed each received an Oscar nomination for best story submission.
synchronization
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Lt. Col. Steve Van Dyke | Gregory Peck | Heinz Engelmann |
| Charles Leatherby | Broderick Crawford | Walther Suessenguth |
| "Hoffy" Hoffmeir | Anita Björk | Eleanor Noelle |
| Ricky Cates | Rita Gam | Edith Schneider |
| Captain Sergej "Petey" Petrochine | Peter van Eyck | Friedrich Joloff |
| Maj. RA Foster | Walter Abel | Erich Poremski |
| M / Sgt. Eddie McColloch | Buddy Ebsen | Clemens Hasse |
| Lt. Col. Stanways | John Horsley | Siegfried Schürenberg |
| Frederick S. Hobart | Max Showalter | Alexander Welbat |
| Mrs. Schindler | Jill Esmond | Ursula War |
Reviews
Paimann's film lists summed up: "In the shady environment of the four-zone Spree city ... thrills are offered for current occasions, under strict direction by a selected, mixed cast collective."
"Sensitively told, interlocking storylines of Cold War espionage."
“Cold war thriller with a strange title that would have been more remarkable if it hadn't been shot in Cinemascope. Speed and talent are visible, but the wide screen and the weak color scheme distract from it. "
"An exciting, well-played agent film that is more aimed at adventurous entertainment than political issues."
Individual evidence
- ↑ The invisible web. In: synchronkartei.de. German dubbing file , accessed on March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ The invisible network in Paimann's film lists ( Memento of the original from November 12, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ The invisible network in the lexicon of international film
Web links
- The invisible power in the Internet Movie Database (English)