Even though I am a brit I lived many, many years in Bavaria, speak and understand German fluently also have learned the quality that German and Austrian actors are capable of. Actresses like Gudrun Landgrebe or actors such as Jürgen Prochnow, Klaus Kinski, Jan Liefers, Götz George, Mario Adorf, in particular Christoph Waltz and even the very young David Bennent in the Tin Drum but the acting in this film, especially Karlheinz Böhm is amateur to say the least. The dialogs are all as though they were reading the script for the first time.
A terrible injustice to Austro-German film makers like Wolfgang Petersen.
For some unknown reason immensely popular with the older generation Who should know better.
-Paul-
