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Before Sundown
Film poster
Directed by	Gottfried Reinhardt
Written by	Gerhart Hauptmann (play) Jochen Huth
Produced by	Artur Brauner
Starring	Hans Albers Annemarie Düringer Martin Held
Cinematography	Kurt Hasse
Edited by	Kurt Zeunert
Music by	Werner Eisbrenner
Production company	CCC Film
Distributed by	Schorcht Filmverleih Sascha Film (Austria)
Release date	6 July 1956 (1956-07-06)
Running time	103 minutes
Country	West Germany
Language	German

Before Sundown (German: Vor Sonnenuntergang) is a 1956 West German drama film directed by Gottfried Reinhardt and starring Hans Albers, Annemarie Düringer and Martin Held. At the 6th Berlin International Film Festival it won the Golden Bear (Audience award). It was adapted from the play Before Sunset by Gerhart Hauptmann.

It was shot at the Spandau Studios in Berlin and on location in Vienna and the Swiss resort town St. Moritz. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Peter Röhrig and Rolf Zehetbauer.

Cast

Hans Albers as Generaldirektor Mathias Clausen
Annemarie Düringer as Inken Peters
Martin Held as Erich Klamroth
Claus Biederstaedt as Egbert Clausen
Hannelore Schroth as Ottilie Klamroth, geb. Clausen
Erich Schellow as Wolfgang Clausen
Maria Becker as Bettina Clausen
Johanna Hofer as Frau Peters, Inkens Mutter
Inge Langen as Paula Clausen, geb. Rübsamen
Hans Nielsen as Dr. Steynitz, Sanitätsrat
Reginald Pasch as Diener
Wolfgang Preiss as Dr. Hahnefeld, Syndikus der Clausen-Werke
Kurt Vespermann as Wuttke, Fahrer bei Clausen
Franz Weber as Gärtner

References

"6th Berlin International Film Festival: Prize Winners". berlinale.de. Archived from the original on 15 October 2013. Retrieved 27 December 2009.
Goble p.211

Bibliography

Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.

External links

Before Sundown at IMDb

v t e Films directed by Gottfried Reinhardt
Invitation (1952) The Story of Three Loves (1953) Betrayed (1954) Before Sundown (1956) Menschen im Hotel (1959) Abschied von den Wolken (1959) Sweetheart of the Gods (1960) Jedermann (1961) Town Without Pity (1961) Eleven Years and One Day (1963) Situation Hopeless... But Not Serious (1965)

v t e Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film
Foreign Film – Foreign Language 1949–1972	Bicycle Thieves (1949) Genevieve / The Lady of the Camelias / No Way Back / Twenty-Four Eyes (1954) Children, Mother, and the General / Dangerous Curves / Eyes of Children / Ordet / Stella (1955) Before Sundown / A Girl in Black / Roses on the Arm / War and Peace / The White Reindeer (1956) Confessions of Felix Krull / Tizoc / Yellow Crow (1957) Girl and the River / The Road a Year Long / Rosemary (1958) Aren't We Wonderful? / Black Orpheus / The Bridge / Odd Obsession / Wild Strawberries (1959) The Truth / The Virgin Spring (1960) Two Women (1961) Divorce Italian Style (1962) Any Number Can Win (1963) Marriage Italian Style (1964) Juliet of the Spirits (1965) A Man and a Woman (1966) Live for Life (1967) War and Peace (1968) Z (1969) Rider on the Rain (1970) The Policeman (1971) The Emigrants / The New Land (1972)
Foreign Film 1973–1985	The Pedestrian (1973) Scenes from a Marriage (1974) Lies My Father Told Me (1975) Face to Face (1976) A Special Day (1977) Autumn Sonata (1978) La Cage aux Folles (1979) Tess (1980) Chariots of Fire (1981) Gandhi (1982) Fanny and Alexander (1983) A Passage to India (1984) The Official Story (1985)
Foreign Language Film 1986–2020	The Assault (1986) My Life as a Dog (1987) Pelle the Conqueror (1988) Cinema Paradiso (1989) Cyrano de Bergerac (1990) Europa Europa (1991) Indochine (1992) Farewell My Concubine (1993) Farinelli (1994) Les Misérables (1995) Kolya (1996) Ma vie en rose (1997) Central Station (1998) All About My Mother (1999) Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) No Man's Land (2001) Talk to Her (2002) Osama (2003) The Sea Inside (2004) Paradise Now (2005) Letters from Iwo Jima (2006) The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007) Waltz with Bashir (2008) The White Ribbon (2009) In a Better World (2010) A Separation (2011) Amour (2012) The Great Beauty (2013) Leviathan (2014) Son of Saul (2015) Elle (2016) In the Fade (2017) Roma (2018) Parasite (2019) Minari (2020)
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