No Way Back (1953 film)

No Way Back (Weg ohne Umkehr) is a 1953 West German drama film directed by Victor Vicas and starring Ivan Desny, Ruth Niehaus and René Deltgen. It was made at the height of the Cold War.

In 1945 following the Battle of Berlin, a Red Army officer is able to protect a young German woman he finds living in a cellar. Several years later he returns to the city as a civilian, finds her again and makes plans to flee from East to West Germany under the noses of the KGB.

Cast

 * Ivan Desny as Michael Zorin aka Mischa
 * Ruth Niehaus as Anna Brückner
 * René Deltgen as Major Kazanow
 * Karl John as Friedrich Schultz
 * Lila Kedrova as Ljuba
 * Serge Beloussow as Litvinski
 * Leonid Pylajew as Wassilij
 * Alf Marholm as Direktor Berger
 * Erika Dannhoff
 * John Haggerty as Steve McCullough
 * Wolfgang Neuss as Comedian
 * Herbert von Boxberger
 * Bogislav von Heyden
 * Reinhard Kolldeh