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Board the Berlin Express and speed into danger, mystery and intrigue! Four postwar heroes - a veritable United Nations from Britain, France, Russia and the U.S. - battle a cadre of diehard Nazis to rescue an anti-fascist German statesman in this tense espionage thriller starring Robert Ryan, Merle Oberon and Paul Lukas. The setting is as riveting as the action: Berlin Express was the first American movie filmed in post-World War II Germany. Director Jacques Tourneur (Cat People, Out of the Past) and cinematographer Lucien Ballard (The Wild Bunch) capture the ruin of a bombed and devastated nation that just a few years earlier threatened to rule the world.
Original Release
05/01/1948
US Release
05/01/1948
Cast
Name | Character |
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Merle Oberon | Lucienne |
Paul Lukas | Dr. Bernhardt |
Robert Coote | Sterling |
Robert Ryan | Robert Lindley |
Reinhold Schünzel | Walther |
Charles Korvin | Perrot |
Roman Toporow | Lt. Maxim Kiroshilov / Maxim Kiroshilov |
Peter von Zerneck | Hans Schmidt |
Otto Waldis | Kessler |
Fritz Kortner | Franzen |
Directors
Writers
Cast
Name | Character |
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Merle Oberon | Lucienne |
Paul Lukas | Dr. Bernhardt |
Robert Coote | Sterling |
Robert Ryan | Robert Lindley |
Reinhold Schünzel | Walther |
Charles Korvin | Perrot |
Roman Toporow | Lt. Maxim Kiroshilov / Maxim Kiroshilov |
Peter von Zerneck | Hans Schmidt |
Otto Waldis | Kessler |
Fritz Kortner | Franzen |
Michael Harvey | Sgt. Barnes |
Tom Keene | Major |
Charles McGraw | USFET Col. Johns |
Paul Stewart | Narrator |
Taylor Allen | Fräulein |
Will Allister | Richard |
Frank Alten | German Steward |
Arthur Berkeley | Nightclub Patron |
Robert Boon | German Youth #2 |
Ernst Brengt | Artist |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Bert Granet | Producer |
Editors
Clips

Berlin Express Clip