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1974•5.2/10

Drama

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5.2/10(3)

July 1944: at a fascist front school in occupied Greece, Captain Weirauch, a civilian professor of classical Greek studies, gives a lecture on guilt and atonement in Sophocles' tragedy Oedipus the King.

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Production

DEFA-Studio für Spielfilme

Language

DE

Status

Released

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Cast

Alfred Müller

Alfred Müller

Hauptmann Dr. Karl Weirauch

Andreas Bock

Soldat Pauli

Michael Christian

Soldat Sühlke

Gerhard Bienert

Gerhard Bienert

Oberst von Seckentorff

Marga Legal

Marga Legal

Gräfin von Seckentorff

Hannjo Hasse

Hannjo Hasse

Oberfeldwebel

Jürgen Hentsch

Jürgen Hentsch

Deutscher Offizier

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