Duped Till Doomsday

Duped Till Doomsday German Betrogen bis zum jngsten Tag is a 1957 East German drama film directed by Kurt JungAlsen. It was entered into the 1957 Cannes Film Festival.

The script was adapted from the 1955published novel Kameraden by Franz Fhmann. Fhmann himself was excluded from participating in the production. The picture was the first of the army epics, a new East German genre that reformed the classic German style of portraying military comradeship, replacing the typical soldiery friendship with plots centered on moral dilemmas facing the servicemen. In addition, the picture was intended as a response to the war films produced in the West at those years.Betrogen bis zum jngsten Tag was the first East German film to be entered into the Cannes Film Festival a year earlier, at 1956, Zar und Zimmermann and Der Teufelskreis were screened outside the competition. Although the picture had no chance of winning due to political considerations, it was nominated for the Palme dOr. ........

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