The Man Between
7.0
“Terror! Vice! Violence! He stopped at nothing!”
A British woman on a visit to post-war Berlin is caught up in an espionage ring smuggling secrets into and out of the Eastern Bloc.
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Cast
13 people
Claire Bloom
Suzanne Mallison
Known for
The Haunting
Limelight
James Mason
Ivo Kern
Known for
Lolita
North by Northwest
Hildegard Knef
Bettina
Known for
The Murderers Are Among Us
Fedora
Geoffrey Toone
Martin Mallison
Known for
The King and I
Jeeves and Wooster
Hilde Sessak
Lizzi
Known for
The Punch Bowl
The Mysterious Magician
Aribert Wäscher
Halendar
Also in
Lowlands
Madame Bovary
Ernst Schröder
Olaf Kastner
Known for
The Counterfeit Traitor
The Odessa File
Dieter Krause
Horst
Karl John
Inspector Kleiber
Known for
Sorcerer
The Mysterious Magician
Ljuba Welitsch
Opera singer
Also in
Arms and the Man
Adorable Julia
Reinhard Kolldehoff
Kolldehoff EaEasstern German Police Officer commanding the hunt for Ivo Kern and Susanne Mallison (uncredited)
Known for
All the Way Boys
They Called Him Bulldozer
Frederick Schiller
Construction Worker on Generator (uncredited)
Known for
The Trollenberg Terror
Carol Reed Director · Harry Kurnitz Screenplay Walter Ebert Screenplay
United States release November 18, 1953 · Produced in United Kingdom · Languages English, German, Russian
Production
London Films Productions
Production
London Film Productions
Production
United Artists Pictures
Studio
United Kingdom
Produced in
Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English · German · Russian
Release dates
United Kingdom · September 25, 1953
Premiere · London
United Kingdom · November 2, 1953
Theatrical
United States · November 18, 1953
Limited theatrical · New York City, New York
Austria
April 1, 1954 · Theatrical
Canada
January 29, 1954 · Limited theatrical · Toronto
Denmark
January 18, 1954 · Theatrical
Finland
January 29, 1954 · Theatrical
France
December 11, 1953 · Theatrical
Germany
December 18, 1953 · Theatrical · West Germany
Italy
December 30, 1953 · Theatrical
Netherlands
February 26, 1954 · Theatrical
Poland
February 27, 2021 · TV
Portugal
May 21, 1954 · Theatrical
South Africa
October 29, 1953 · Limited theatrical · Johannesburg
November 4, 1953 · Limited theatrical · Cape Town
Sweden
October 19, 1953 · Theatrical
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