Baron Karl Ludwig von Oster, the owner of a giant concern, one of the industrial magnates of Germany, convicted at the Nuremberg trials, was released by the American military administration and is now testing new weapons. The film is based on a judicial duel between a war criminal and journalist Ingrid Kuhn, the daughter of Professor Peter Kuhn, who paid with his life to prevent Auster from getting atomic weapons into his hands...
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Cast
23 people
Astrīda Kairiša
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Juris Strenga
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Oļgerts Kroders
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Leonhard Merzin
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Mikhail Yekaterininskiy
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Georgiy Shtil
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Bruno Frejndlikh
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Yevgeniya Vetlova
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Larisa Pashkova
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Vladimir Yemelyanov
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Oleg Basilashvili
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Boris Volkov
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Leonid Menaker Director · Yevgeniy Zaytsev Writer Arkadiy Poltorak Writer
First release December 2, 1974 · Produced in Russia · Original title Опознание
Production
Lenfilm
Production
Russia
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Original title
Опознание
Original language
Russian
Spoken on screen
Russian
Release dates
Russia · December 2, 1974
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No release date listed for United States.
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