''Between Day and Night'' (german: Zwischen Nacht und Tag) is a 1975 East German

drama film In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. Drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular super-g ...

directed by

Horst E. Brandt Horst E. Brandt (17 January 1923 – 22 August 2009) was a German film director and cinematographer. His 1967 film ''Bread and Roses'' was entered into the 5th Moscow International Film Festival. His 1975 film '' Between Day and Night'' was ...

. It was entered into the

9th Moscow International Film Festival The 9th Moscow International Film Festival was held from 10 to 23 July 1975. The Golden Prizes were awarded to the Polish film '' The Promised Land'' directed by Andrzej Wajda, the Soviet-Japanese film ''Dersu Uzala'' directed by Akira Kurosawa a ...

Plot

Episodes from the life of the German poet and communist

Erich Weinert Erich Bernhard Gustav Weinert (4 August 1890 in Magdeburg – 20 April 1953 in East Berlin) was a German Communist writer and a member of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD). Early life Weinert was born in 1890 in Magdeburg to a family supp ...

(1890–1953): Life in Paris, participated in the war in Spain, the years of exile in Russia.

Cast

(In alphabetical order) * Hermann Beyer as Carl *

Kurt Böwe Kurt Böwe (28 April 1929 – 14 June 2000) was a German actor. He appeared in more than ninety films from 1962 to 2000. Selected filmography References External links * 1929 births 2000 deaths German male film actors {{Ge ...

as Erich Weinert *

Michael Christian Michael Christian (born 21 August 1964) is a former Australian rules footballer and media personality from Busselton, Western Australia who played for East Perth in the West Australian Football League (WAFL) and Collingwood in the Victorian ...

as Fred *

Yelena Drapeko Yelena Grigoryevna Drapeko (russian: Еле́на Григо́рьевна Драпе́ко; born 29 October 1948) is a Soviet and Russian theatre and film actress. She has appeared in more than 30 films and television shows since 1972. She is a ...

* Wolfgang Greese as Wilhelm * Gert Gütschow as R. *

Rolf Hoppe Rolf Hoppe (6 December 1930 – 14 November 2018) was a prolific German stage, cinema, and television actor, who played in more than 400 films in a career which spanned over six decades. To international audiences Hoppe is perhaps best known f ...

* Stefan Lisewski as Hans K. * Katja Paryla as Li Weinert * Leonid Reutov as Wolodja * Dietmar Richter-Reinick as Kumpel *

Gudrun Ritter Gudrun Ritter (born 16 November 1936) is a German actress. She appeared in more than one hundred films since 1959. Selected filmography References External links * * 1936 births Living people German film actresses {{Germ ...

as Carl's Wife * Gisela Stoll as Elsa * Olga Strub as Marianne *

Rudolf Ulrich Rudolf Ulrich (3 January 1922 – 4 April 1997) was a German film actor. He appeared in 67 films between 1954 and 1986. He died in Berlin at age 75. Selected filmography * ''Duped Till Doomsday'' (1957) * ''Polonia-Express'' (1957) * '' Br� ...

as Peter * Manfred Zetzsche as Ernst

References

External links

* 1975 films 1975 drama films East German films German drama films 1970s German-language films Films set in Paris Spanish Civil War films Films set in the Soviet Union 1970s German films {{1970s-drama-film-stub