Witness Out of Hell

Witness Out of Hell
Directed by	Zika Mitrovic
Written by	Frida Filipovic Michael Mansfeld
Produced by	Artur Brauner Peter Hahne Aleksander Krstic
Starring	Irene Papas Daniel Gélin Heinz Drache
Cinematography	Milorad Markovic
Edited by	Ursula Kahlbaum Katarina Stojanovic
Music by	Vladimir Kraus-Rajteric
Production companies	Avala Film CCC Film
Distributed by	J. Arthur Rank Film
Release date	1 March 1966 (1966-03-01)
Running time	83 minutes
Countries	West Germany Yugoslavia
Language	German

Witness Out of Hell (German: Zeugin aus der Hölle) is a 1966 West German-Yugoslavian drama film directed by Zika Mitrovic and starring Irene Papas, Daniel Gélin and Heinz Drache. It was shot at the Spandau Studios in West Berlin. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Miomir Denic, Aleksandar Milovic and Heinrich Weidemann.

Synopsis

During the Second World War Lea Weiss, Jewish woman from Poland was forced to work in a brothel at Auschwitz and then was the victim of medical experiments. Twenty years later prosecutors at a war crimes tribunal hope she can be their stat witness in the trial of the perpetrators.

Cast

• Irene Papas as Lea Weiss
• Daniel Gélin as Bora Petrovic
• Heinz Drache as Hoffmann
• Jean Claudio as Charlos Bianchi
• Werner Peters as Von Walden
• Radmila Gutesa as Elsa
• Petar Banicevic as Fischer
• Alice Treff as Frau von Keller
• Hans Zesch-Ballot as Dr. Berger
• Darko Tatic as Recepcioner Alfred
• Zorica Gajdas as Dama sa kucicima
• Nikola Jovanovic as Posetilac dame sa kucicima

Bibliography

• Bartholomei, Lukas. Bilder von Schuld und Unschuld: Spielfilme über den Nationalsozialismus in Ost- und Westdeutschland. Waxmann Verlag, 2015.
• Bock, Hans-Michael & Bergfelder, Tim. The Concise CineGraph. Encyclopedia of German Cinema. Berghahn Books, 2009.
• Lewis, Ingrid. Women in European Holocaust Films: Perpetrators, Victims and Resisters. Springer International Publishing, 2018/

External links

• Witness Out of Hell at IMDb