Movie: The Last Illusion

Top 10 Billed Cast

Fritz Kortner
Fritz Kortner

Professor Mauthner

Johanna Hofer
Johanna Hofer

Lina

Lina Carstens
Lina Carstens

Emma

Rosemary Murphy
Rosemary Murphy

Mary

William Sinnigen
William Sinnigen

Elliot

Ernst Schröder
Ernst Schröder

Walter

Paul Hoffmann
Paul Hoffmann

Fechner

Arno Assmann
Arno Assmann

Kurt

Charles Regnier
Charles Regnier

Bertram

Alwin Edwards
Alwin Edwards

Homer

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    Professor Mauthner, after many years of exile (having emigrated in 1933 to the USA), returns to Germany in 1948. He can in fact return to his teaching post, but the rejection and petty intrigues of his reactionary colleagues and students make his work almost unbearable.

  • Release Date

    1949-04-19

  • Average

    6.3

  • Rating:

    3.1 starts
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