Fritz Bauer Institut · Cinematography of the Holocaust
ID |
FBW000110 Fiction |
Country / Year |
USA, 1943 |
Original Title |
Mission to Moscow |
Other Title(s) |
Botschafter in Moskau (German) |
Directed by |
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Produced by |
Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc., Burbank, CA / New York, NY |
Staff |
Producer: Robert Buckner; Location manager: Al Alleborn; Assistent director: Frank S. Heath; Script: Howard Koch; Based on: Joseph Edward Davies (Reportage); Camera: Bert Glennon; Special optical effects: Ray Davidson, H.F. Koenekamp; Editing: Owen Marks; Montage: Don Siegel, James Leicester; Sound: Oliver S. Garretson; Art direction: Carl Jules Weyl; Technical consultant: Max Rabinovitch; Set decoration: George James Hopkins; Costumes: Orry-Kelly; Makeup: Perc Westmore, Gordon Bau; Music: Max Steiner; Musical direction: Leo F. Forbstein; Orchestration: Bernard Kaun; Choreography: Leroy Prinz; Consultant: Jay Leyda; 2nd unit, director: Don Siegel |
Cast |
Walter Huston (Ambassador Joseph Edward Davies); Ann Harding (Marjorie Davies); Oskar Homolka (als: Oscar Homolka) (Maxim Litvinov); George Tobias (Freddie); Gene Lockhart (Vyacheslav Molotov); Frieda Inescort (Mrs. Molotov); Eleonor Parker (Emlen Davies); Richard Travis (Paul Grosjean); Helmut Dantine (Major Kamenev); Victor Francen (Prosecutor Vyshinsky); Henry Daniell (Minister Joachim Von Ribbentrop); Barbara Everest (Ivy Litvinov); Dudley Field Malone (Prime Minister Winston Churchill); Roman Bohnen (Krestinsky); Maria Palmer (Tanya Litvinov); Moroni Olson (Colonel Philip Faymonville); Minor Watson (Loy Henderson); Vladimir Sokoloff (Mikhail Kalinin); Maurice Schwartz (Dr. Botkin); Jerome Cowan (Spendler); Konstantin Shayne (Nikolai Bukharin); Manart Kippen (Joseph Stalin); Doris Lloyd (Mrs. Churchill); Kathleen Lockhart (Lady Chilston); Kurt Katch (Marshal Semer Timoshenko); Felix Basch (Dr. Hjalmar Schacht); Frank Puglia (Judge Ulrich); Frank Reicher (German Ambassador General Von Koestrich); John Abbott (Grinko); Charles Trowbridge (Secretary of State Cordell Hull); Maurice Cass (Jugoslavian President); Leigh Whipper (Haile Selassie); Jack Young (President Roosevelt); Virginia Christine (Myra, Maid); Ivan Triesault (Tukhachevsky); Daniel Ocko (Yagoda); Lee Tung Foo (Tsiang Ting Fu, Chinese Ambassador); Peter Goo Chong (Shigemitzu); Lumsden Hare (Lord Chilston); Alex Caze (Coulondre); John Wengraf (Polish Ambassador Grzybowski); Georges Renavent (President Paul Van Zeeland); Clive Morgan (Anthony Eden); Alex Chirva (Pierre Laval); Olaf Hytten (Parliament Member); Art Gilmore (Commentator); Don Clayton (Vincent Massey); Duncan Renaldo (Italian Reporter); Nino Bellini (Italian Reporter); Oliver Blake (Heckler); Ferdinand Schumann-Heink (German Reporter); Rolf Lindau (German Reporter); Peter Michael (German Reporter); George Davis (French Reporter); Jean Del Val (French Reporter); Emory Parnell (Speaker of House); Pat O'Malley (Irish American); Mark Strong (Englishman); Albert D'Arno (Frenchman); Rudolph Steinbeck (German); Gino Corrado (Italian); Glenn Strange (Southerner); Oliver Cross (Delegate Van de Water); Ray Walker (Raymond, the Butler); Ernst Haeussermann (als: Ernst Hauserman) (Stewart of Ship); Frank Faylen (1st Reporter); Joseph Crehan (2nd Reporter); Ross Ford (Emlen's Well-Wisher); Warren Douglas (Emlen's Well-Wisher); Barbara Brown (Well-Wisher); Isabel Withers (Coal Mine Worker); George Lessey (Friend of Davies); Wallis Clark (Friend of Davies); Hans Schumm (Uniformed Guard); Ernest Golm (Fat German); Lisa Golm (German's Wife); Henry Victor (Herr Schufeld, Hamburg Officia); Lutz Altschul (als: Louis V. Arco) (Train Announcer); Alfred Zeisler (German Conductor); Richard Révy (als: Richard Ryan) (German); Erwin Kalser (German Business Man); Pierre Watkin (Naval Attache); Edward Van Sloan (German Diplomat); Esther Zeitlin (Russian Woman); Nina Biagio (Russian Woman); Tanya Samova (Flower Girl); Nikolai Celikhovsky (Soviet Official); Michael Visaroff (Barkov); Sam Savitsky (Spadebeard); Nick Kobliansky (O.G.P.U. Man); Gabriel Lenoff (O.G.P.U. Man); Alex Akimoff (O.G.P.U. Man); George Glebeff (O.G.P.U. Man); Mike Tulligan (O.G.P.U. Man); Adia Kuznetzoff (O.G.P.U. Man); Demetrius Alexis (als: Dimitris Alexis) (O.G.P.U. Man); Henry Guttman (O.G.P.U. Man in Taxi); Robert Baikoff (Soldier); Mischa Westfall (Petya); Elizabeth Archer (Elderly Woman); Rosa Margot (Russian Servant); Janet Martin (als: Valya Terry) (Natasha); Sándor Szabó (Ski Troop Lieutenant); David Hoffman (Karl Radek); Robert C. Fischer (Count Werner Von Schulenberg); Charles La Torre (Italian Ambassador Rosso); Leonid Snegoff (Kommodov); Adolf Edgar Licho (als: Edgar Licho) (Book Seller); Marie Melesh (Young Woman); Michael Mark (Timid Man); Martin Noble (Russian Officer); Victor Wong (Japanese Diplomate); Luke Chan (Japanese Diplomate); Allen Jung (Japanese Diplomate); John H. Dilson (American Senator); Jean De Briac (French Maniac); George Sorel (German Bund Member / Italian Delegate); Ted E. Jacques (Machinist); Billie Louie (Telephone Operator); Loulette Sablon (Telephone Operator); Marian Lessing (Telephone Operator); Joan Winfield (Telephone Operator); Tina Menard (Telephone Operator); Peggy Watts (Telephone Operator); Irene Pedrini (Telephone Operator); Louis Jean Heydt (American Newsman); John Hamilton (American Newsman); Frank Ferguson (American Newsman); Bill Kennedy (American Newsman); William Forrest (American Newsman); Alex Melesh (Pyatakov); Marek Windheim (Sokalnikov); Ivan Lebedeff (Rosengoltz); Gregory Golubeff (Commandant of the Court); Jack Gardner (Newsreel Photographer); Egon Brecher (Heinrich Sahm); Zina Torchina (Girl Parachutist); Vera Richkova (Girl Parachutist); Jean Wong (Girl Parachutist); Irina Semochenko (Girl Parachutist); Christine Gordon (Girl Parachutist); Sam Goldenberg (Leon Trotsky); Alexander Granach (Russian Air Force Officer); Joseph Kamaryt (Old Russian); Yvonne Hendricks (Minister's Wife); Tamara Shayne (Russian Nurse); Olga Uljanovskaja (Russian Nurse); Patricia Fung (Chinese Girl); Igor Dega (als: Igor De Navrotsky) (Litvinov's Secretary); James Flavin (Congressman); William B. Davidson (Congressman); Herbert Heyes (Congressman); George Carleton (Congressman); Francis Pierlot (Doctor); Forbes Murray (Isolationist); Edward Keane (Isolationist); William Gould (Isolationist); Harry Cording (Blacksmith); Zoia Karabanova (Woman Engineer); Betty Roadman (Mother); Hooper Atchley (Father); Eugene Eberly (Son); Arthur Loft (Man with Microphone); Alexander Campbell (Senator); Nicco Romoff (Foreman); Mike Mazurki (Workman); Noel Cravat (Workman); Tom Tully (Engineer); Lionel Royce (Dr. Schmitt); Emil Rameau (Polish President Ignatz Paderewski); Eugene Borden (French Minister); Feodor Chaliapin, Jr. (Shop Foreman); John Maxwell (Reporter); Jacqueline Dalya (Russian Girl); Herbert Ashley (Electrician); Monte Blue (Heckler); Frank Penny (Heckler); Ernie Adams (Heckler); Eddie Kane (Heckler); Edmund Cobb (Heckler); Howard M. Mitchell (Heckler); Frank Wayne (Heckler); Jack Kenny (Heckler); Ben Erway (Heckler); Mauritz Hugo (Heckler); Gene Gary (Russian Foreman); Frank Jaquet (Dutch Banker); Fred Essler (Dutch Banker); Robert Shayne (Engineer); Michael Panajeff (Speciality Dancer); Cyd Charisse (als: Lily Norwood) (Speciality Dancer); Al Kunde (Father); Glen Walters (Mother); Evelyne Smith (Daughter); Frank Hemphill (Grandfather); Joseph Edward Davies (Himself in Introduction) |
Length |
3324 m / 121'30'' oder 123' |
Format |
35mm/sw/1:1,37 |
Dates |
- 28 Apr 1943: Preview, Washington, DC (Earle) |
Subject Terms |
Anti-Nazi films (US); Diplomats; Moscow; Soviet Union; World War II |
Holdings |
- Kinemathek Hamburg, Hamburg; 16mm |
Bibliography |
- Davies, Joseph Edward: Mission to Moscow. A Record of Confidential Dispatches to the State Department, Official and Personal Correspondence, Current Diary and Journal Entries. New York, NY: Simon and Schuster, 1941 |