Word: werner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...father takes advantage of the subservience of his younger son, Werner, to free his older son. His first step is to make Werner swear to stay in the family home to take care of Frantz if something happens to Leni. But Johanna, Werner's wife, has seen Werner crushed by his family environment, and she is forced to help the father free Frantz; for only in that way can she free her own husband from the imprisoning commitment...
...CAME IN FROM THE COLD. This strong, stark adaptation of John le Carre's novel has Richard Burton giving his best screen performance as a burnt-out British agent sent to set a diabolical trap for a tireless foe (Oskar Werner) in East Germany...
...mile run. Baker pulled away from the field at the half-way point and won handily at 4:12.5, 4 seconds ahead of Princeton's Werner Endrikat and 6 seconds before Crimson teammate Randy Langenbach...
Richard Burton, at his very best, gets sturdy opposition from Oskar Werner in a skillful version of the John le Carré thriller about a British Intelligence man who poses as a defector to East Germany...
Martin Ritt, who both produced and directed, deserves credit for his cast. Oskar Werner as Fiedler and Peter Van Eyck as Mundt are good in the court room scene, though in general Werner is rather over-done and Van Eyck wooden. Claire Bloom elicits just the right amount of love from Burton. And Burton, when he sits waiting to be interviewed for a job, when he makes contact with the Communist agent, and when he looks down from the Berlin wall at Smiley, is superb. All he has to do is whisper, "I have to go early in the morning...