Wet Asphalt

Apr 2, 1958

1h 30m

★ 5.8

Overview

In Berlin, when the journalist Greg Bachmann is released from prison six months before the end of his sentence, there is a driver named Jupp waiting for him. Soon he learns that the famous journalist Cesar Boyd was the responsible for the shorter sentence. Cesar offers a position of his assistant to Greg; in return, Boyd would write his story about his interviews to war criminals and Greg would help him in other matters. Meanwhile Boyd welcomes the daughter of a deceased friend, Bettina, and he becomes her guardian.

Genres

Thriller

Drama

Production Companies

Inter West Film

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Cast

Greg Bachmann

Horst Buchholz

Cesar Boyd

Martin Held

Bettina

Maria Perschy

Jupp

Gert Fröbe

Der Blinde

Heinz Reincke

Gustl

Inge Meysel

Jimmy Donnagan

Peter Capell

Dr. Wolf

Richard Münch

Marlene Riphahn

Wanda

Renate Schacht

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