A British woman on a visit to post-war Berlin is caught up in an espionage ring smuggling secrets into and out of the Eastern Bloc.

Claire Bloom
as Suzanne Mallison

James Mason
as Ivo Kern

Hildegard Knef
as Bettina

Geoffrey Toone
as Martin Mallison

Hilde Sessak
as Lizzi

Aribert Wäscher
as Halendar

Ernst Schröder
as Olaf Kastner

Dieter Krause
as Horst

Karl John
as Inspector Kleiber

Ljuba Welitsch
as Opera singer
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Very much in the vein of Carol Reed's similar cold war thriller "The Third Man" (1949), this is a gritty and characterful story set in Berlin just before the Soviet Union imposed travel restrictions. This time, the Communists kidnap "Susanne" (Claire Bloom) - she happens to be the sister of British ...