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Released
1988 · FILM

Welcome to Germany

Directed by
Runtime
98 min
Language
DE
Drama

Synopsis

An American filmmaker travels to modern day Berlin to make a film based on a real-life incident from 1942 in which 13 Jewish prisoners from a concentration camp were promised freedom if they appeared in a German propaganda film. Unfortunately, the Germans lied. The psychological process undergone by the modern filmmaker while shooting the story provides the basis of this arty and challenging film.

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Principal cast & crew: 19

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Tanja SchmidbauerShot by Axel BlockScored by Gunther FischerDesigned by Albrecht Konrad

Also known as

  • Der Passagier – Welcome to Germanyde
  • The Passenger – Welcome to Germanyen
  • Le Passager-Welcome to Germanyfr
  • Ritorno a Berlinoit

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