The Last Illusion
1949 film
- Richard König
- Josef von Báky
- Fritz Kortner
- Johanna Hofer
- Lina Carstens
Production
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Objectiv Film
Release date
- 19 April 1949 (1949-04-19)
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The Last Illusion (German: Der Ruf) is a 1949 German drama film directed by Josef von Báky and starring Fritz Kortner, Johanna Hofer and Lina Carstens.[1] It was entered into the 1949 Cannes Film Festival.[2] It was shot at the Bavaria Studios in Munich. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Fritz Lück, Fritz Maurischat and Hans Sohnle.
Synopsis
A Jewish university professor returns from exile following the end of the Second World War. His hopes of rebuilding a new Germany are undermined by the continuing antisemitism of his colleagues and students.
Cast
- Fritz Kortner as Professor Mauthner
- Johanna Hofer as Lina
- Rosemary Murphy as Mary
- Lina Carstens as Emma
- William Sinnigen as Elliot
- Michael Murphy as Spencer
- Ernst Schröder as Walter
- Paul Hoffmann as Fechner
- Arno Assmann as Kurt
- Charles Régnier as Bertram
- Alwin Edwards as Homer
- Harald Mannl as Fraenkl
- Friedrich Domin as Professor Helfert
- Hans Clarin
- Angelika Schrobsdorff
- Heinz Thiele
References
Bibliography
- Hake, Sabine. German National Cinema. Routledge, 2002.
External links
- The Last Illusion at IMDb
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The films of Josef von Báky
- The Woman at the Crossroads (1938)
- The Great and the Little Love (1938)
- Her First Experience (1939)
- Stars of Variety (1939)
- Annelie (1941)
- Münchhausen (1943)
- Via Mala (1945)
- And the Heavens Above Us (1947)
- The Last Illusion (1949)
- Two Times Lotte (1950)
- Dreaming Lips (1953)
- Diary of a Married Woman (1953)
- Hotel Adlon (1955)
- Dunja (1955)
- The Girl and the Legend (1957)
- Precocious Youth (1957)
- Confess, Doctor Corda (1958)
- Stefanie (1958)
- The Man Who Sold Himself (1959)
- Marili (1959)
- The Ideal Woman (1959)
- Storm in a Water Glass (1960)
- The Strange Countess (1961)
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