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Wet Asphalt

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. Greg and Bettina feels immediately attracted by each other but Boyd is also interested in Bettina. When Boyd needs to send an article to a newspaper in Paris, he fabricates a story of a group of five German soldiers that have lived in a bunker in Poland for six years. In the end, one blind soldier would have survived and was sent to a Polish hospital. The story becomes a great sensation, affecting the governments of Poland, Russia and Germany and their inhabitants. When Greg discovers the big lie of his boss and mentor, he has to take an attitude; but Boyd is an old fox.

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Cast & Crew See All

Horst Buchholz
Greg Bachmann
Martin Held
Cesar Boyd
María Perschy
Bettina Battenberg

Awards

  • 1958 - Film Award in Silver - Best Film Score (Beste Filmmusik) - winner
  • 1958 - Bambi - Best Actor - National - nominated
  • 1958 - Film Award in Gold - Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role (Beste darstellerische Leistung - Männliche Hauptrolle) - nominated
  • 1958 - Film Award in Gold - Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role (Beste darstellerische Leistung - Männliche Nebenrolle) - nominated

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