Nasser Asphalt

Nasser Asphalt

BR Deutschland 1958, Spielfilm

Synopsis

Wet Asphalt

Greg Bachmann, a young and avid reporter, is more than lucky to be able to work for the famous press mogul Cesar Boyd. Bachmann has just recently been released from prison and gratefully accepts the offer to become Boyd′s right-hand man. But after some time, Bachmann slowly manages to see through the façade of the news tycoon and he finds out that Boyd′s power is based on a giant fabric of lies. Then, one day, Boyd wants Bachmann to turn one of his bogus stories into a sensational cover story: Five german soldiers have allegedly survived six years in a Russian bunker. When Boyd tries to justify his brand of sensational journalism, Bachmann realizes that he has to choose between a career as a reporter and his own moral values.

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Credits

Director:Frank Wysbar
Screenplay:Will Tremper
Director of photography:Helmuth Ashley
Editing:Klaus Dudenhöfer
Music:Hans-Martin Majewski
  
Cast: 
Horst BuchholzGreg Bachmann
Martin HeldCesar Boyd
Maria PerschyBettina
Gert FröbeJupp
Heinz ReinckeBlinde
Inge MeyselGustl
Peter CapellDonnagan
Renate SchachtWanda
Richard MünchDr. Wolf
Ludwig LinkmannTanek
Aranka JaenkeFrau Adorf
Nikolai BaschkoffCepinek
  
Production company:Inter West Film GmbH (Berlin)

All Credits

Director:Frank Wysbar
Assistant director:Wieland Liebske
Screenplay:Will Tremper
Story:Will Tremper
Director of photography:Helmuth Ashley
Camera operator:Franz X. Lederle
Assistant camera:Wolfgang Hofmann, Nicolas Fexis
Still photography:Gabriele Du Vinage
Lighting design:Hermann Goedeke
Production design:Herbert Kirchhoff, Albrecht Becker
Costume design:Helga Reuter
Make-up artist:Herbert Grieser, Gertrud Weinz
Editing:Klaus Dudenhöfer
Assistant editor:Iris Roesl
Sound:Hans Ebel
Music recording:Werner Pohl
Music:Hans-Martin Majewski
  
Cast: 
Horst BuchholzGreg Bachmann
Martin HeldCesar Boyd
Maria PerschyBettina
Gert FröbeJupp
Heinz ReinckeBlinde
Inge MeyselGustl
Peter CapellDonnagan
Renate SchachtWanda
Richard MünchDr. Wolf
Ludwig LinkmannTanek
Aranka JaenkeFrau Adorf
Nikolai BaschkoffCepinek
  
Production company:Inter West Film GmbH (Berlin)
Unit production manager:Gert Weber
Location manager:Heinz Karchow, Peter Homfeld
Production manager:Emil Hesse
Shoot:13.01.1958: Hamburg
Original distributor:Europa-Filmverleih GmbH (Hamburg)
Length:2423 m, 88 min
Format:35mm, 1:1,66
Picture/Sound:s/w, Ton
Rating:FSK-Prüfung (DE): 01.04.1958, 16732, ab 12 Jahre / feiertagsfrei
Screening:TV-Erstsendung (DE): 28.07.1965, ZDF

Titles

Originaltitel (DE) Nasser Asphalt

Versions

Original

Length:2423 m, 88 min
Format:35mm, 1:1,66
Picture/Sound:s/w, Ton
Rating:FSK-Prüfung (DE): 01.04.1958, 16732, ab 12 Jahre / feiertagsfrei
Screening:TV-Erstsendung (DE): 28.07.1965, ZDF
 

Awards

Deutscher Filmpreis 1958
Filmband in Silber, Beste Filmmusik