Decision Before Dawn is a 1951 American war film directed by Anatole Litvak, starring Richard Basehart, Oskar Werner, and Hans Christian Blech. It tells the story of the U.S. Army using potentially unreliable German prisoners of war to gather intelligence as clandestine "line-crossers" in the closing days of World War II. The film was adapted by Peter Viertel and Jack Rollens (uncredited) from the novel Call It Treason by George L. Howe. The film was a critical success and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture.
Decision Before Dawn (1951)
Directed by Anatole Litvak
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Academy Awards, American Army, Before Dawn, Best Film Editing, Best Picture, It Treason, Prisoner Of War, Second World War, Spy
Attributes
Filming Location: Nuremberg
Narrative Location: Germany
Subject: about the Resistance, World War II
Narrative Location: Germany
Subject: about the Resistance, World War II
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A Legião dos Condenados
PT
Afgørelse ved daggry
DK
Apofasis prin tin avgi
GR
Avgjørelse før daggry
NO
Call It Treason
, US
Decisão Antes do Amanhecer
BR
Decisión al amanecer
MX, ES
Decision Before Dawn
CA, GB, US
Decizie inainte de zori
RO
Decyzja przed świtem
PL
El traidor
AR
Entscheidung vor Morgengrauen
AT, DE
Fedai Casus
TR
Förrädare
SE
Het legioen der gedoemden
BE
I dannati
IT
La légion des damnés
BE
Le traître
FR
Legion of the Damned
, US
O prodotis tis stratias tou Rinou
GR
Vakoilijana omassa maassaan
FI
Решение перед рассветом
, RU
暁前の決断
JP