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Nominated for an Academy Award® for Best Foreign Language Film (1981), The Boat is Full is a tense and heartbreaking drama that captures the plight of refugees during WWII. A ragtag band of exiles from Germany sneak into Switzerland seeking asylum. They are allowed to stay at an isolated inn as long as they pretend to be a family. In order to maintain this deception they must communicate with a young French-speaking boy, who cannot understand the rest of the German-speaking refugees. They must impress upon him the importance of remaining silent, or else their plan, and their lives, could fall apart. Director Markus Imhoof (More Than Honey, Eldorado) keeps tightening the suspense until the final, breathtaking minutes. Pointedly relevant and nailbitingly tense, The Boat is Full is a WWII film for the ages.
Original Release
01/15/1981
US Release
04/25/1981
Cast
Name | Character |
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Tina Engel | Judith Krueger |
Hans Diehl | Hannes Krueger |
Martin Walz | Olaf Landau |
Curt Bois | Lazar Ostrowskij |
Ilse Bahrs | Frau Ostrowskij / Mrs. Ostrowskij |
Gerd David | Karl Schneider |
Laurent | Maurice |
Renate Steiger | Anna Flueckinger / Anna Flueckiger |
Mathias Gnädinger | Franz Flueckiger |
Michael Gempart | Landjäger Bigler |
Directors
Writers
Markus Imhoof, Edgar Bonjour, Alfred A. Haesler
Cast
Name | Character |
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Tina Engel | Judith Krueger |
Hans Diehl | Hannes Krueger |
Martin Walz | Olaf Landau |
Curt Bois | Lazar Ostrowskij |
Ilse Bahrs | Frau Ostrowskij / Mrs. Ostrowskij |
Gerd David | Karl Schneider |
Laurent | Maurice |
Renate Steiger | Anna Flueckinger / Anna Flueckiger |
Mathias Gnädinger | Franz Flueckiger |
Michael Gempart | Landjäger Bigler |
Klaus Steiger | Reverend Hochdorfer |
Alice Brüngger | Frau Hochdorfer |
Otto Dornbierer | Otti |
Monika Koch | Rosemarie |
Ernst Stiefel | Dr, Baertschi |
Johannes Peyer | Truck Driver |
Gertrud Demenga | Peasant Woman |
André Frei | |
Hans-Joachim Frick | |
Wolfgang Grabow |
Producers
Name | Role |
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George Reinhart | Executive Producer |
Editors
Year | Type | Category | Won |
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1982 | Oscar | Best Foreign Language Film | Nominated |