Die Ratten

Die Ratten
Directed by	Robert Siodmak
Written by	Jochen Huth
Starring	Maria Schell; Curd Jürgens; Heidemarie Hatheyer; Gustav Knuth; Ilse Steppat
Release date	6 July 1955;
Running time	97 minutes
Country	West Germany
Language	German

Die Ratten (English: The Rats) is a 1955 West German drama film directed by Robert Siodmak. It is an adaptation of the play The Rats by Gerhart Hauptmann which transferred the story in the early fifties, shortly after the Second World War. It tells the story of the destitute Pole Pauline, who sells her illegitimate baby for a few hundred Deutsche Mark to the childless forwarder's wife Anna John. The film won the Golden Bear award.^[1]

Cast

Maria Schell - Pauline Karka
Curd Jürgens - Bruno Mechelke
Heidemarie Hatheyer - Anna John
Gustav Knuth - Karl John
Ilse Steppat - Frau Knobbe
Fritz Remond - Harro Hassenreuter
Barbara Rost - Selma Knobbe
Hans Bergmann
Walter Bluhm
Carl de Vogt
Erich Dunskus
Karl Hellmer
Manfred Meurer
Edith Schollwer
Lou Seitz
Hans Stiebner

References

↑ "5th Berlin International Film Festival: Prize Winners". berlinale.de. Retrieved 2010-12-16.

External links

Die Ratten on IMDb
Die Ratten at AllMovie

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Films directed by Robert Siodmak
Europe 1930–1939	People on Sunday (1930) Abschied (1930) Inquest (1931) The Man in Search of His Murderer (1931) Storms of Passion (1932) Quick (1932) The Burning Secret (1933) The Weaker Sex (1933) The Crisis is Over (1934) La Vie parisienne (1936) Parisian Life (1936) Compliments of Mister Flow (1936) White Cargo (1937) Mollenard (1938) Personal Column (1939)
Hollywood 1941–1950	West Point Widow (1941) Fly-by-Night (1942) The Night Before the Divorce (1942) My Heart Belongs to Daddy (1942) Someone to Remember (1943) Son of Dracula (1943) Phantom Lady (1944) Cobra Woman (1944) Christmas Holiday (1944) The Suspect (1944) The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry (1945) The Spiral Staircase (1946) The Killers (1946) The Dark Mirror (1946) Time Out of Mind (1947) Cry of the City (1948) Criss Cross (1949) The Great Sinner (1949) The File on Thelma Jordon (1950) Deported (1950) The Whistle at Eaton Falls (1951)
Europe 1952–1969	The Crimson Pirate (1952) Flesh and the Woman (1954) Die Ratten (1955) The Devil Strikes at Night (1957) Dorothea Angermann (1959) Magnificent Sinner (1959) The Rough and the Smooth (1959) Escape from East Berlin (1962) Die Pyramide des Sonnengottes (1965) Custer of the West (1967) Kampf um Rom (1968)