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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 .
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.
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. [3] For this film Vittorio De Sica won the Academy of Italian Cinema's David di Donatello award for Best Director. [4]
Albrecht von Gerlach, an industrialist, feels he is nearing death and calls his lawyer son Werner, whom he wishes to select as his successor. Werner is hesit...
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.
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.
A dying German shipbuilder wants his youngest son to take over the family business. Rated: B • Feb 2, 2013. Based on a Sartre play, this is a moving political drama about Germany after WWII ...
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