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Johanna von Gerlach
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The Condemned of Altona (French: Les Séquestrés d'Altona) is a play written by Jean-Paul Sartre, known in Great Britain as Loser Wins. It was first produced in 1959 at the Théâtre de la Renaissance in Paris .
- Henry A. Garrity, Jean-Paul Sartre, Sylvia Leeson, George Leeson
- 1961
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The Condemned of Altona: Directed by Vittorio De Sica. With Sophia Loren, Maximilian Schell, Fredric March, Robert Wagner. A maddened German war criminal lives in a secluded house owned by his rich father who lets him think the war is still on 20 years after the fact.
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- Drama, History
- Vittorio De Sica
- 1963-10-30
The Condemned of Altona (Italian: I sequestrati di Altona) is a 1962 Italian-French drama film directed by Vittorio De Sica. It is based on the play of the same name by Jean-Paul Sartre. For this film Vittorio De Sica won the Academy of Italian Cinema's David di Donatello award for Best Director.
Albrecht von Gerlach, an industrialist, feels he is nearing death and calls his lawyer son Werner, whom he wishes to select as his successor.
- 103 min
- 53
- Way Bak Cinima
Upon learning that he will die of cancer in a few months, Gerlach, head of West Germany's greatest industrial combine, summons his younger son, Werner, and Werner's wife, Johanna, an actress, to the family home in Altona.
Jean-Paul Sartre's The Condemned of Altona is the author's only work that directly addresses the Holocaust. First produced in Paris in 1959, the play is a tense family psychodrama that explores issues of German guilt and responsibility for wartime and Holocaust atrocities.
A dying German magnate invites his youngest son and daughter-in-law home to discuss the future of the family's shipbuilding empire. There, the daughter-in-law stumbles upon a secret of the family's Nazi past.
