The Lost People (1949)

6.0/10 • 89 min • War Drama

Overview

Set in a German theatre after the Second World War, two British soldiers are holding a disparate and hostile band of refugees in this theatre, prior to returning them to their homelands. The soldiers have difficulty dealing with the rivalries between Serb and Croat, resistance fighter and collaborator, Pole and Russian, etc. The threat of plague briefly unites them, but eventually even this wears off and the refugees unite in their hostility to the British.

Cast

Dennis Price

Ridley

Mai Zetterling

Lily

Richard Attenborough

Jan

Siobhán McKenna

Marie

Maxwell Reed

Peter

William Hartnell

Barnes

Gerard Heinz

Professor

Zena Marshall

Anna

Olaf Pooley

Milosh

Harcourt Williams

Priest

Philo Hauser

Draja

Jill Balcon

Rebecca

Grey Blake

Saunders

Marcel Poncin

Duval

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