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The Pedestrian

Play trailer The Pedestrian PG Released Feb 28, 1974 1h 32m Drama Play Trailer Watchlist
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Aging German man Heinz Alfred Geise (Gustav Rudolf Sellner) is a successful business owner whose past is quite haunting; during World War II he helped orchestrate a Nazi-led bloodbath in a small Greek village. When this secret is exposed in a newspaper article, it causes his son, Andreas (Maximilian Schell), to try to kill both his father and himself, but this attempted murder-suicide only results in Andreas' death. Alfred then tries to cope with the tremendous guilt he is left with.

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John Simon Esquire Magazine A worthy failure. But failure all the same. Feb 10, 2019 Full Review Read all reviews

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Audience Member This film is not as bad as it is rated on Rotten Tomatoes by some, and it is not as good as it is rated by IMDB by others; it is somewhere in between. I would give it a 5 or 6 if rating on IMDB, and two and a half stars on Rotten Tomatoes. I found the storyline to be a bit depressing; so it is not something I would recommend as ispirational viewing. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/17/23 Full Review Audience Member Thought provoker where newspaper reporters debate running a story without concrete evidence that suggests a successful engineer was possibly involved in a mass killing as a German army officer in Greece in 1943. Raises lots of moral questions. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/13/23 Full Review Audience Member Thought provoker where newspaper reporters debate running a story without concrete evidence that suggests a successful engineer was possibly involved in a mass killing as a German army officer in Greece in 1943. Raises lots of moral questions. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/28/23 Full Review Audience Member Intriguing German film covering successful businessman's guilt on a newspaper report of his participation in a WWII massacre, although lacking any hard evidence. Plenty of moral and ethical questions raised pertaining to the pedestrian and reporters. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/24/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Maximilian Schell

Director

Gustav Rudolf Sellner

Heinz Alfred Giese

Peter Hall

Rudolf Hartmann

Maximilian Schell

Andreas Giese

Gila von Weitershausen

Karin

Elisabeth Bergner

Frau Lilienthal
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Synopsis Aging German man Heinz Alfred Geise (Gustav Rudolf Sellner) is a successful business owner whose past is quite haunting; during World War II he helped orchestrate a Nazi-led bloodbath in a small Greek village. When this secret is exposed in a newspaper article, it causes his son, Andreas (Maximilian Schell), to try to kill both his father and himself, but this attempted murder-suicide only results in Andreas' death. Alfred then tries to cope with the tremendous guilt he is left with.
Director
Maximilian Schell
Distributor
Cinerama Releasing Corporation [us]
Production Co
Alfa-Film GmbH, Braun Entertainment Group
Rating
PG
Genre
Drama
Original Language
German
Release Date (Theaters)
Feb 28, 1974, Original
Runtime
1h 32m