List of the best Hannes Messemer movies: General Della Rovere(1959), Escape by Night(1960), The Defector(1966), The Odessa File(1974), The Great Escape(1963) ... ...
Drama
1959
139 Minutes
Vittorio De Sica Hannes Messemer Sandra Milo Vittorio Caprioli Guiseppe Rossetti Giovanna Ralli Anne Vernon Baronessa Bazzani Kurt Polter Kurt Selge Mary Greco
criminal nazi military officer engaging gutsy milan, italy prison deception leadership mistaken identity nazism patriotism world war ii transformation 1940s
A petty crook forced to impersonate an Italian general identifies with the role and becomes a martyr for his country.
Drama, War
Italy|France
1960
138 Minutes
Colonnello Barone Von Kleist
Giovanna Ralli Sergei Bondarchuk Leo Genn Peter Baldwin Renato Salvatori Hannes Messemer
prisoner of war communist nun partisan soldier american patriotic suspenseful emotional gritty rome attic farm house countryside prison camp loyalty resistance cultural differences unlikely allies
Three allied prisoners, a Russian, an American and an Englishman, attempt to escape with the help of a young couple from Rome.
Mystery & Thriller
France|West Germany
1966
106 Minutes
Dr. Saltzer
Montgomery Clift Hardy Kruger Roddy McDowall Macha Méril David Opatoshu Christine Delaroche Hannes Messemer Karl Lieffen
An American scientist is sent by the CIA to East Germany to retrieve a secret microfilm from a Soviet scientist interested in defecting to the West but the Stasi secret police's surveillance complicates matters.
Mystery & Thriller, Drama
UK|West Germany
1974
128 Minutes
Gen. Glücks
Jon Voight Maximilian Schell Maria Schell Mary Tamm Derek Jacobi Peter Jeffrey Klaus Löwitsch Kurt Meisel Hannes Messemer Garfield Morgan Shmuel Rodensky
journalist nazi ss officer vigilante bleak chilling dark gripping thrilling uneasy west germany secret society fugitives nazi hunting quest pursuit mystery underdog 20th century
Following the suicide of an elderly Jewish man, a journalist in possession of the man's diary investigates the alleged sighting of a former S.S. Captain, who commanded a concentration camp during World War II.
War, Drama
USA
1963
172 Minutes
Steve McQueen James Garner Richard Attenborough Charles Bronson James Donald Donald Pleasence James Coburn David McCallum Gordon Jackson John Leyton Angus Lennie
military officer soldier prisoner nazi cheeky engaging gutsy spirited suspenseful germany pow camp escape deception confinement dangerous assignment prison rebellion escape quest pursuit
Allied prisoners of war plan for several hundred of their number to escape from a German camp during World War II.