This movie has been used as a teaching tool in some film-making classes. Also, the depiction of late-war Germany and the level of detail, is unequalled. Turner Classic rates it very high.

@awokeorasleepgodsaves.

Ай бұрын

you don't say? well that's one for the books. I'm just a couple, or a few minutes into it, & I myself already like it.

@carolynmichael2723

Ай бұрын

I really don’t care what innie others think of it , I just know it’s one of my favorite movies especially war movies! I do know they screwed up the name of the movie.

The movie made a clear distinction between Nazi, or nationalist, militarist fanatics, & the Germans who were not, during the last few months of World War II. It was a grim, extremely dangerous, & often tragic situation. Decent people tended to get shot. I found the movie engrossing, filmed as it was in the ruins of German cities not long after the end of the war, & using some German actors, both men & women, who had lost various parts of their bodies because of the war. IMO, pretty gritty realism, & well done.

This is not acting - this is reliving those times

Absolutely loved how this film came together, Loved Richard Basehart and Gary Merrill's performances. Tight action and performances!

The real name of the movie is "Decision Before Dawn". Anytime you search World War 2 movies this is one of the top 10 movies that come up. It's not a bad movie.

@54:40 That castle on the hill in the background is Schloss Marienberg. There was a wonderful restaurant up there where you could dine outdoors while overlooking the city. I was stationed in Wuerzburg from 85 to 88. One of my favorite things about this movie is seeing some of my favorite cities as they were shortly after the war.

As a true story, those men of German decent made a sacrifice to save their own country we seldom see today. Great acting and thanks for sharing.

@petermcgreevy6386

2 ай бұрын

the cigarette flicking in the mouth was a bit over the top.....🤫

@toffeeriot4219

2 ай бұрын

Descent?

@TheWorld-xs8ly

2 ай бұрын

@@toffeeriot4219- We all know what he meant 🙄

Spotted a young Klaus Kinski @10:13 so went digging for more info - turns out the film is actually titled Decision Before Dawn (though not uncommon for films to have different titles in different markets) and was one of the first movies to show Germans in a more sympathetic light. Thanks for the upload.

Oscar Werner also starred in Fahrenheit 451 where he played a similar role of being on the run. His acting was excellent as was the entire cast. Dbl thumbs up movie.

@cattymajiv

2 ай бұрын

And Ship Of Fools, a GREAT film!

Oskar was a great guy, feel bad for what he went through being a gentle man😮

I think this film is actually the famous "Decision Before Dawn" starring the superb Oskar Werner.

@1Rabble-Rouser

Ай бұрын

Thanks for that, I don't understand why these uploaders use the wrong movie titles.

@BAYONETWARFILMS

Ай бұрын

It is the 1951 film Decision Before Dawn, which has been on dvd for some time now. Perhaps the poster figured by renaming it, it would skip the YT censors, but it does not work that way. It only ever went under one title.

@Lassisvulgaris

Ай бұрын

@@1Rabble-Rouser I think it's because copyright issues......

the vw beetle @55:25 i think is post war. i cant watch basehart without thinking about voyage to the bottom of the sea

@donofon1014

14 күн бұрын

The VW existed before and during the war. Created by a man name Porsche ..

Great film. The scenes showing destroyed and damaged cities are amazing. The film was shot before these areas were rebuilt after WW2.

@russellbeaumont310

2 ай бұрын

What’s more the remnants of the real German army were used as extras with their real uniforms.

decision before dawn. 1951

Thanks for the upload! Oskar Werner was in the German army in real life and was married to a German Jew! He deserted and he and his wife hid in the woods the last part of the war. Check him out in the Austrian film, The Last Ten Days. Someone put it up with English subs or maybe I used the AI translator CC. Good flick about the Hitler bunker!

@joepangean6770

2 ай бұрын

Hans Christian Blech also served in the Wehrmacht and received his facial scars on the Eastern Front.

@cattymajiv

2 ай бұрын

Werner was in so many great films! My favorite is Ship Of Fools, with an elderly Vivien Leigh and an aging Simone Signoret, and many other stars.

I remember this as DECISION BEFORE DAWN. Why change the title? It is a good movie

@cattymajiv

2 ай бұрын

Sometimes the name is changed in Europe or America, or on a later re-release, But sometimes it's a useless attempt at copyright evasion.

Bloody marvellous movie one of my favourites

A very good war film helped by using authentic locations,thanks for posting.

These scenes are INCREDIBLE! GOD BLESS

Isn’t this film title ==.decision before dawn ?

@robertpage2023

2 ай бұрын

Yes, and I really loved the acting of Oscar Verner. He was great in Fahrenheit 450, the original version as Montag. He was in WWII in the Wehrmacht Nazi army but he was NOT a Nazi. He had done some acting when in his teens and used that to pretend that he was mentally defective so as to get out of being sent to the front. He even married a Jewish girl and hid out in the woods till the war was over.

@kevinhoffman6592

2 ай бұрын

Ur correct

@bennybluerock6565

2 ай бұрын

Entah lah .... I don"t know ... @

@cattymajiv

2 ай бұрын

I've always really loved Oscar Verner! Even when he's old, in films like Ship Of Fools, a wonderful film that's packed with different stars! Everyone should see that! Sadly, like all super good looking male actors of his time, he died very young. Of a heart attack I think.

@robertpage2023

2 ай бұрын

Yeah, me to and I"m always sad when those great actors destroy themselves due to their own mental maladies. He experienced such horrors in his real life before acting that I'm sure caused much of his deconstruction of the self. Like other actors in his class, he has such an ease of it and so believable in his moment. Camera rolls and he's ON!

Cracking flick, regardless of its title. Still love black & white….🇳🇿🇳🇿🇳🇿

AKA, "Decision Before Dawn" --1951

Klaus Kinski was already the psycho back then...

Oskar Werner (Happy) was a German deserter during WWII. Hans Christian Blech (Tiger) fought on the Russian front. That's how he got those facial scars. Wonder how they got along on the set?

@heatherhinde6544

2 ай бұрын

A desserter...or a man of conscience and moral fortitude?

@thomasthomas2418

2 ай бұрын

@@heatherhinde6544 That's the question, isn't it?

@jeffreycrawley1216

Ай бұрын

@@heatherhinde6544 A desserter ... a man who makes apple pie a la mode, Boston cream pie and Sticky Toffee Pudding?

A great movie !

Thanks for this upload!...very interesting...

Grossartiger Film. Wundervolle Schauspieler.

Oskar Werner also starred in Ship of Fools in a terrrific performance as the ship's doctor

@cattymajiv

2 ай бұрын

I loved that movie! I've seen it 4 times!

Thank you

Great!

good movie

Incredible good movie.

@stevenrussell5340

2 ай бұрын

Agreed, well put together. Great acting and very believable.

Yes the real title is "Decision Before Dawn". Why its listed as Behind Enemy Lines escapes me. The latter title is a much newer film. Oskar Verner is excellent

@njaco08

9 күн бұрын

So he can bypass KZread copyright.

Always liked this movie! A good guy faced with difficult decisions and is always trapped by difficult decisions and on the run from his fate!?

I watched the movie years, it’s good but sad at the same.

Oskar Werner so cute as usual. See him as old man in Columbo episode "Playback"

The Motor Bike Courier was a good actor......😉

My father was musician that fought in the Pacific theater in WWW 2, he played the organ on an aircraft carrier toward the end of the war and saw no action. He loved his time in the Navy and the FDR government that created the G. I. Bill payed his way to college. This by the way was Harvard College.

@user-vd3ko9zy6u

Ай бұрын

nobody cares

@michaelgrossman9457

Ай бұрын

@@user-vd3ko9zy6u = prick

Decision Before Dawn yes not behind lines

@jody6851

2 ай бұрын

Yes, that is the real title of the movie -- Decision Before Dawn -- which was nominated for Best Picture at the 1952 Academy Awards and for Best Editing btw. Why it was posted on KZread with a false title, I don't know. I've seen the movie a few times over the years, the first time when I was a little kid with my babysitter, and I remember my first vague memory of some of the scenes. According to Wikipedia, this film was one of General Douglas MacArthur's favorites. It's taken for granted now, but much of the movie was shot in post-war Germany while still under Allied occupation, with the death and destruction and the Nazi regime still quite fresh in people's minds there as well as seen in the real, ruined buildings in the German cities where many of the scenes were shot. Those are not scenery sets erected for the movie. The German actors lived through the Nazi period in Germany, some of them were granted draft deferments because the Nazis wanted them to continue acting in films that raised the morale of the German soldiers. Oskar Werner was a draft dodger and pacifist who had to hide from the Gestapo. Nazi Propaganda Minister Josef Goebbels in real life tried to hit on the actress who plays the disillusioned hooker in the film -- Hildegard Knef, but she rejected him. Fortunately, nothing happened to her as a consequence. I also find it amazing how many of these native German actors were fluent in English, even just after the war, which means they learned English while living under the Nazis since they remained in Germany throughout the Hitler years.

@jody6851

2 ай бұрын

Interesting. Thanks. Well, these German actors learned to speak English fluently somehow in the German school system. They certainly are too fluent to assume they learned English to that level in just a short time after the war. And unlike Hollywood star Marlene Dietrich who left Germany for the US out of protest against Hitler, these actors all stayed for better or for worse and lived through it. They were lucky. One big movie actress in Nazi Germany who like these actors remained in Germany and appeared in film and stage productions there produced by the Nazi entertainment industry -- Lizzi Waldmüller -- was killed in an Allied bombing raid on Vienna towards the end of the war in very early 1945.

@SLOWHAND234

2 ай бұрын

@@jody6851 Re your your comments on the fluency in English of the native German actors, I've deleted my reply containing the quote from John G, the retired university lecturer in German, because it's irrelevant. Although he's correct, he's much too specific: he's only talking about when English became MANDATORY in schools. What's much more important and relevant is that English has been taught in German schools since the 19th century (although maybe not in all schools and not in all regions and probably not for students of all ages). For more details, take a look at a 2014 paper entitled "The Foreign Language Curriculum in Northern German schools (1850-1900)" by T. Giesler in OpenEdition Journals. "The modern foreign languages French and (later) English found their way into the German curricula over the course of the 19th century," Giesler says.

The correct title of this film is Decision Before Dawn. It also appears on YT under the title Deceptive Pact.

Click on this what a gem!

Some old movies are really better, more interesting than recents one and this one is.

Wonderful movie - and look up the remarkable story of Hildegard Knef, who unforgettably played the tavern prostitute. It's almost as remarkable as the movie itself.

@nobodyknows3180

2 ай бұрын

There is a wiki article on her

@jsmith498

2 ай бұрын

Yes, I recognised her from a film I watched two months ago, The Man Between. Striking looks.

@waltergold3457

2 ай бұрын

@@jsmith498 She's also in DIPLOMATIC COURIER (1952) with Tyrone Power, an excellent movie (which, like this one, is free on KZread) about Cold War spies.

@jody6851

2 ай бұрын

In fact, Nazi propaganda minister Josef Goebbels had the hots for her and often hit on her, but she refused him. Fortunately, without any consequence.

I kind of like vintage classic movie-flicks with a touch of the modern day, & age. you know what I mean? you know what i'm saying?

Shame a good guy got caught right at the end

I had hoped it wasn't DbD. Then there would be another Oskar Werner movie!

Not a bad movie.

Título original: Decision Before Dawn 1951 WWII is entering its last phase: Germany is in ruins but does not yield. The US army lacks crucial knowledge about the German units operating on the opposite side of the Rhine, and decides to send two German prisoners to gather information. The scheme is risky: the Gestapo retains a terribly efficient network to identify and capture spies and deserters. It is not clear that "Tiger", who does not mind dirty work as long as the price is right, and war-weary "Happy", who might be easily betrayed by his feelings, are dependable agents. After Tiger and another American agent are successfully infiltrated, Happy is parachuted in Bavaria. His duty: find out the whereabouts of a powerful German armored unit moving towards the western front.

A fine World War Two Black and White movie from the 1950’s.

@awokeorasleepgodsaves.

Ай бұрын

yes indeed, most certainly I myself agree, couldn't agree with you more I don't think, & unless of course I myself am mistaken

I do believe that German Soldier was only trying to save more lives on both sides knowing that the War was lost & Hitler didn’t give a darn who he got killed even after the facts so I wouldn’t call him a traitor at all , only a man who had a compassion for life , that simple !!!

@04:50 The U.S. soldier hands over the German Officer's pistol, sorry that would never have happened. In fact. the Com. Officer would have pulled rank on the jeep driver and kept it for himself as a souvenir.

Very young Klaus Kinsky in one episode.

Takes place in my hometown Mannheim, I recognize some of the locations

@awokeorasleepgodsaves.

Ай бұрын

you're German? how's it over there now, huh?

@hans-joachimschmidt6269

Ай бұрын

@@awokeorasleepgodsaves. Much better, no more ruins

At 10 minutes, I am sure that the man interviewed is Klaus Kinski!!!

@Kidraver555

Ай бұрын

Yes, he is listed on idmb as the whining soldier.

@kakikaka203

10 күн бұрын

he is

Just come across this today and can’t believe a lot of the German uniforms in this are actually original. As are the vehicles, this film could never be made today. It would cost so much money to kit out the cast with this kind of gear. Absolutely amazing!😘🙏

1:14ish Same Chateau as in, Paths of Glory???

@joelspringman523

2 ай бұрын

Why do you care about a hat??

Momma Bear this Papa Bear over!

Another stolen movie renamed! Grrr...

Peccato vhe non è tradotto

😊😊

Klaus Kinski??

I watched this one while going through severe withdrawl from pain meds after abdominal surgery. The movie is okay, if a bit dark; but I won't watch it again... ;-)

@LaurenceOConnor-fg4dk

2 ай бұрын

Why?

@kerrybarratt6298

2 ай бұрын

Sorry for your pain whatching else misery deflects your own pain. i understansd

@davidallcock6316

Ай бұрын

That's exactly what I'm doing..

Wher is audio

🤩🤩🤩💖💖

Contact Hogan at Stalag 13.

Adverts every 4 minutes!! Practically spoils the entire movie on the yt channel. Come on, what's the point of showing the movie?

@sailordude2094

2 ай бұрын

get an ad blocker?

@benjaminrush4443

2 ай бұрын

KZread shot me off until I capitulated.@@sailordude2094

@cattymajiv

2 ай бұрын

At 31 minutes I'm thinking you are right! I think I'll watch it on a different channel.

If bullets did not harm these soldiers on both sides, then the cigarettes eventually did harm them.

@davidchelson8069

Ай бұрын

The cigarettes at that time had no added chemicals.

@awokeorasleepgodsaves.

Ай бұрын

you can say that again, brotha, preach, & teach, preach, & teach

The first german soldier (speaking english)... isnt he the tame guard in the great escape? The one that gets his wallet stolen? Think he was a real knights cross recipient...

@klaus-peterkubiak7795

Ай бұрын

The guy that you mean was Robert Graf. He died in 1966. He did not participate in this film.

@fishyc150

Ай бұрын

@@klaus-peterkubiak7795 you are indeed correct. I found the guy, Oskar Werner. Complete opposite of Robert Graf. Thank you!

Il soldato tedesco prigioniero ha una fisionomia già vista...🍾🤔🤔🤔🪖🪖🪖

@carmencollor1224

13 күн бұрын

Yes, a young Klaus Kinsky.

Five star pentagram/ baphomet

Well, I won the bet. Guess the first commercials at six minutes yay and movie sucks.

The Utah Church.

@user-tz3dy7mt9e

2 ай бұрын

A Utah Church where?

The bootleggers are at it again - cutting out the opening credits to avoid prosecution and then attaching a false title. This film is "Decision Before Dawn".

Hey Cinematic Euphoria. Why don't you have the correct title for this movie? This is Decision before Dawn. Good movie but I'm giving you a thumbs down for not posting the correct title. 👎

@loggggon

2 ай бұрын

They sometimes get taken down for title

@beerdrinker6452

2 ай бұрын

A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.

@RSEFX

2 ай бұрын

The credits are trimmed off and the title changed to trick YT into letting it be posted. I think we have got to see this movie here should be grateful for that ploy. (I'm not sure that I would've watched a movie with the title DECISION BEFORE DAWN. Too generic. This fake title is what lured me into watching it.

@cattymajiv

2 ай бұрын

@@RSEFX That ploy never works. The software that hunts copyright infringements is not that overly simplistic! This film has been up on other channels for years.

Jon Stewart For Pres & Stephen Colbert for VP - on the Ballot

@user-xz7pj7ju5x

2 ай бұрын

Grow up !!

@jody6851

2 ай бұрын

Is this to choose the "biggest idiot on television" contest?

@patrickturner2788

Ай бұрын

You sure you got the right comment page. This is a 1951 movie. LOL we have enough idiots in America pretending to be politicians. We don't need professional ones or do we??

@donofon1014

14 күн бұрын

Both of those gents are fine. They do NOT work well together. Colbert screwed up Stewart's protest for sanity and reason .. by tagging on nonsense. When they do "bits" on Colbert .. they are embarrassingly bad.

It's "Boy-see", not " Boy-zee". Duhhh.

@cattymajiv

2 ай бұрын

Who cares?

Ma non c'è nessun commento in lingua italiana???😢😢😢

Why are all the German soldiers speaking English and not Deutsch?

@artyzinn7725

Ай бұрын

in early us films, subtitles and use of foreign languages were rare

@carolynmichael2723

Ай бұрын

Because we use English.There is a Dutch speaking version of this movie, easy to find with the help of the tube or WWW.. but it’s the almost same movie. There is commercial interruptions free on my playlist for innie one too enjoy!

@awokeorasleepgodsaves.

Ай бұрын

how else would anybody be able to understand them if a person does not know Deutsch, or the german language? I myself only remember so few words of the German language myself.

@donofon1014

14 күн бұрын

@@carolynmichael2723 Dutch ... nederlaans ..and Deutsche are not the same. Is there a nederlaans version you saw?

@carolynmichael2723

14 күн бұрын

@@donofon1014 no it was German , the same language the soldiers spoke . There home language innie way. When in Europe one must know many languages .Ja!

Hoax

There’s nothing English about this film.

@deputydawg6244

Ай бұрын

It's in the English language, not made in England! Here's one in Spanish. kzread.info/dash/bejne/Y5Oasa6NprKuZs4.html

@anushkasekkingstad1300

Ай бұрын

@@deputydawg6244 it isn’t even in the English language but in the appallingly bastardised version of the language used in the US. There’s nothing remotely British about the film. The claim is simply a scam, hoping to give the film wider appeal.

@deputydawg6244

Ай бұрын

@@anushkasekkingstad1300 Hey, I tried to explain why it has the word English next to the title. If you don't want to accept that explanation that's up to you.

@anushkasekkingstad1300

Ай бұрын

@@deputydawg6244 Your explanation would only satisfy a deeply ignorant U.S. American. It doesn’t have the word “English” next to the title. It has the phrase “English full movie”, whatever that’s supposed to mean. More recently, we watched a film named “Called to Spy” it was about SOE agents operating in France during WW2. The soundtrack was in French, German and English. It was British made, with British and French actors, British film crew. Virginia Hall, a U.S. American, who contributed substantially in the events covered, was played by a U.S. actress who had clearly lived in Europe for long enough to lose her dreadful US accent. No other US voice was heard. My wife’s first language is French and we’re both fluent in French and German and felt the film to be authentic. Having a grating US accent in France after the US finally entered the war, would have ensured a very short life expectancy. Hall was a well travelled woman who spoke French and German fluently.

@deputydawg6244

Ай бұрын

@@anushkasekkingstad1300 So you refuse to accept a perfectly logical explanation and resort to insults. Who is the ignorant one? BTW, I'm Japanese.

This is a curious movie. What's its purpose? Who's it's audience? What's its point? Why did they make it? Why try to give Nazis compassion and self-searching? (And, if this script is based on actual events, then there were some dumb, really dumb, "spies" in WW2!)

@davidhimmelsbach557

2 ай бұрын

Rehabilitation of West Germany prior to its inclusion into NATO. (1955)

@PoochAndBoo

2 ай бұрын

Where did they give NAZIS compassion and self searching? Kinski wasn't playing a Nazi. You do know that not all Germans in Germany at the time were Nazis, right? Or maybe you don't.

@heatherhinde6544

2 ай бұрын

Perhaps its purpose is simple to tell a true story of one man's war experience.

@jeffreycrawley1216

Ай бұрын

@@PoochAndBoo One in ten Germans was a card carrying member of the NSDAP - over 8 millions and of those that were not, well look at the 1940 newsreel footage of the "victorious" soldiers coming home from France showing all of the crowd waving their little swastika flags and giving the Hitler salute . . .

I'll be glad when I'm back home and this planet can shove it.

Another stupid war movie

@williamsnyder5616

2 ай бұрын

This ''stupid war; 'movie'' was a nominee for Best Picture for the 1951 Oscars. It was praised by critics for it's realism about war. Sorry it flew above the heads of Trumpies.

@MrJoegilkey

2 ай бұрын

They don't call it the idiot box for nothing@@williamsnyder5616

@conveyor2

2 ай бұрын

@@williamsnyder5616

@cattymajiv

2 ай бұрын

@@williamsnyder5616 I hate MAGAts too, but why would you accuse that person of being one, just because they don't like war movies? In general I don't care for most war movies either. It just depends on the film. Anyway please don't make accusations without proof. That behavior makes all lefties look bad, and helps no-one.

@cattymajiv

2 ай бұрын

@@conveyor2 Only idiots use the word "woke".

Stupid movie

@ilokivi

2 ай бұрын

The stupidity lay in the starting of the war. The intelligence lay in realising that it needed to end, and in finding the courage to help bring it about.

@johna1160

2 ай бұрын

I'm only six minutes in and, as written, glaring non sequitur. Driver gets lost, claims no sense of direction. Yet, when they arrive at destination driver is obviously familiar with the place as he "hunts" chickens for the nuns. See ya

@thomasthomas2418

2 ай бұрын

Thoughtful review.

Klaus Kinski...Youngest I've ever seen him...He's had a rep for being very difficult to work with...prob not so much here.