Dirk Bogarde, Ingrid Thulin, Helmut Griem, Helmut Berger, Renaud Verley...
Runtime:
-
MPAA Rating:
-
In Theaters:
18 December 1969 (USA)
Distribution:
Production Companies
Eichberg-Film
Praesidens-Pegaso Italnoleggio
Distributors
Warner Bros. Pictures (USA) (dubbed)
Warner Home Video (2004) (USA) (DVD)
Other Companies
General Music music publishing
The dramatic collapse of a wealthy, industrialist/Junker family during the reign of the Third Reich.
The power and fortune of the Von Essenbeck family remained intact even when Germany lost the great war and during the depression that followed. Now it's 1934 and the baron has summoned his family to a dinner that also brings a cousin rising in the Nazi party to the great house accompanied by a rising manager at the baron's company. Two little girls recite poetry in the parlor and then play hide-and-seek with their cousin Martin. Suddenly there is a scream. The baron has been shot with their father's gun and the father flees the country.