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