The Man Between (1953)

Als die junge Engländerin Susanne (Claire Bloom) ihren Bruder Martin (Geoffrey Toone) in Westberlin besucht, fällt ihr ein geheimnisvoller Mann namens Ivo (James Mason) auf, der zwischen den Besatzungssektoren pendelt. Susanne verliebt sich in den attraktiven Fremden und merkt erst spät, dass sie zu einer Schachfigur im gefährlichen Agentenspiel des Kalten Krieges geworden ist. Als sie in den Ostteil der Stadt verschleppt wird, muss sich Ivo zwischen seinem Auftrag und seinen Gefühlen entscheiden…
'The Man Between' lief in den deutschen Kinos unter dem Titel 'Gefährlicher Urlaub'. Der spannende Kriminalfilm im Berlin des Kalten Krieges von Regie-Ass Carol Reed mit James Mason und der deutschen Schauspiel-Ikone Hildegard Knef erschien in Deutschland 2006 erstmals auf DVD.
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In the Post-World War II, the British Susanne Mallison travels to Berlin to visit her older brother Martin Mallison, a military that has married the German Bettina Mallison. The naive Susanne snoops on Bettina and suspects that she is hiding a secret from her brother. When Susanne meets Bettina with her friend Ivo Kern, he offers to show Berlin to her and they date. But Ivo meets the strange Halendar from the East Germany and Susanne takes a cab and return to her home alone. Then she dates Ivo again and he meets Olaf Kastner, who is a friend of Martin and Bettina. But soon Susanne, who has fallen in love with Ivo, learns that he was a former attorney married to Bettina but with a criminal past during the war. Now he is blackmailed by Halendar to kidnap Kastner and bring him back to the other side of the border. The plan fails and Halender asks his men to abduct Bettina to get Kastner. However, Susanne is kidnapped by mistake and is imprisoned in the basement of a house in East Berlin. Now Ivo plots a plan to rescue Susanne from Halender and help her to cross the border. Will they succeed in their intent?