The Lost People
1949·United Kingdom·89 min.
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Set in a German theatre after the Second World War, two British soldiers are holding a disparate and hostile band of refugees (displaced persons) in this theatre, prior to returning them to their homelands. The soldiers have difficulty dealing with the rivalries between Serb and Croat, resistance fighter and collaborator, Pole and Russian, etc. The threat of plague briefly unites them, but eventually even this wears off and the refugees unite in their hostility to the British.
ScreenwriterBridget Boland
MusicJohn Greenwood
CinematographyJack Asher
CastDennis Price·Mai Zetterling·Richard Attenborough·Siobhan McKenna·Maxwell Reed·William Hartnell·Gerard Heinz·Zena Marshall·Olaf Pooley·Harcourt Williams·Philo Hauser·Jill Balcon·Grey Blake·Marcel Poncin·Herbert LomShow all
Original titleThe Lost People