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Forbidden (Original title)Versteckt (Alternative title)
Date: 1984 (Release)

Countries: USA, United Kingdom, Federal Republic of Germany

Director: Anthony Page

Synopsis: World War II romance between German Countess and a young Jewish man. Based on a true story.

Genres:
Romance, War

Subjects:
Jewish people, World War II, Third Reich
Releases
Date: 1984not specifiedRelease type: unknownFormat: 35mm Film - Colour - SoundRuntime: 114 mins Length: 10286 FeetDialogue (original): English

Credits (46)
Production Company: Home Box Office, Production Company: Mark Forstater Productions, Production Company: Clasart Film- und Fernsehproduktion, Production Company: Munich Anthea Filmgesellschaft, Production Company: Stella Film, Production Company: The Jozak Company, Production Company: Decade Productions, Executive Producer: Gerald I. Isenberg, Co-executive producer: Fritz Butenstedt, Herbert G. Kloiber, Producer: Mark Forstater, Co-producer: Hans Brockmann, Associate Producer: Ingrid Windisch, Production executive for Jozak-Decade: Hans Proppe, Unit manager: Herbert Kertz, Location Manager: Wolfgang Bajorat, Production Assistant: Elisabeth Schwärzer, Production Assistant: Carol Orzack, Production Assistant: Nicola Lund, Assistant Director: Stefan Schieder, Assistant Director: Horst D. Scheel, Assistant Director: Stefan Diepenbrock, Dialogue director: Osman Ragheb, Screenplay and original novel: Leonard Gross, Photography: Wolfgang Treu, Assistant Photographer: Peter Arnold, Matte Artist: Ray Caple, Special Effects: Richard Richtsfeld, Editor: Thomas Schwalm, Production Designer: Toni Lüdi, Art Director: Albrecht Konrad, Set director: Heidi Lüdi, Set Dresser: Wolfgang Kallnischkies, Draughtsperson: Bernhard Willet, Costume Designer: Gisela Storch, Wardrobe mistress: Brigitte Friedländer, Sonja Kutschke, Chief Make-up: Karin Bauer, Chief makeup: Hasso von Hugo, Make-up: Peter Bour, Make-up: Marianne Müller, Music: Tangerine Dream, Sound Recording: Detlev Fichtner, Sound Editor: Angelika Siegmeier, Stunt Co-ordinator: Franz Prigl
Cast (26)
Jacqueline Bisset (Nina von Halder), Jürgen Prochnow (Fritz Friedländer), Irene Worth (Ruth Friedländer), Peter Vaughan (Major Stauffel), Robert Dietl (Nils Arvidsson), Avis Bunnage (Frau Schmidt), Malcolm Kaye (Max Baum), Georg Tryphon (Jew Catcher), Annie Leon (Erica von Kirdorf), Amanda Cannings (Lucie), Osman Ragheb (Hans Wittenhagen), Guntbert Warns (Librarian), Herta Schwarz (Berta), Ulli Kinalzik (Gestapo Agent), Gerhard Frey (Emil Janos), Erich Will (Shopkeeper), Bernd Vollbrecht, Chris Kurbjuhn (One of the Hitler Youth), Friedhelm Lehmann (Russian Jewish Officer), Susanne Bonasewicz (Christa), Michael Traynor (Man at Paper Stall), Hartmut Volle (SS Man at Paper Stall), Klaus Münster (Railway Man), Dagmar Cassens-Dunton (Nurse), Rolf Marnitz (Police Officer), Horst D. Scheel (Railway Guard)