Professor Sonnenbruck is a scientist who is not particularly interested in politics. Even the meeting in 1943 with his former assistant Peters does not change him. He does not betray Peters, who has escaped from a concentration camp, but that is already enough for him. But after the war Sonnenrbruck gets into a conflict of conscience. He thought that science was finally free of politics again only to find the opposite happening at his university in Göttingen. A medical congress in the GDR brings him together with Peters, who is working on a major research contract there. Sonnenbruck decides to visit Peters.
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Cast
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Eduard von Winterstein
Prof. Walter Sonnenbruck
Known for
The Blue Angel
Münchhausen
Maly Delschaft
Bertha Sonnenbruck
Known for
The Last Laugh
Georg C. Klaren
Ernst Roters
Leon Kruczkowski
Ursula Burg
Ruth Sonnenbruck
Also in
Professor Mamlock
Die Schönste
Kurt Maetzig
Friedel Welsandt
Raimund Schelcher
Dozent Joachim Peters
Also in
Vacation in Sylt
Der Prozeß wird vertagt
Fritz Lehmann
Harry Riebauer
Student
Known for
The Great Escape
Possession
Herbert Köfer
Christian Föns
Also in
Das große Abenteuer des Kaspar Schmeck
Naked Among Wolves
Georg C. Klaren Director · Kurt Maetzig Writer Leon Kruczkowski Story
First release March 1, 1951 · Produced in XG · Original title Die Sonnenbrucks
Production
DEFA
Production
XG
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Original title
Die Sonnenbrucks
Original language
German
Spoken on screen
German
Release dates
Germany · March 1, 1951
Theatrical
No release date listed for United States.
Austria
May 25, 1951
Czechia
July 29, 1951 · Karlovy Vary Film Festival
Russia
July 23, 1951 · Theatrical
XC
October 3, 1952 · Theatrical
January 14, 1954 · Theatrical
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