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Directed by | Anthony Page |
Screenplay by | Leonard Gross (teleplay) |
Based on | book The Last Jews in Berlin |
Produced by | Mark Forstater Hans Brockman Gerald I. Isenberg Ingrid Windisch |
Starring | Jacqueline Bisset Jürgen Prochnow Irene Worth |
Narrated by | Jacqueline Bisset |
Cinematography | Wolfgang Treu |
Edited by | Thomas Schwalm |
Music by | Tangerine Dream |
Production companies | Mark Forstater Productions HBO Premiere Films |
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Running time | 114 minutes 157 minutes (Canada) |
Countries | England West Germany |
Language | English |
Forbidden is a 1984 drama film directed by Anthony Page and starring Jacqueline Bisset, Jürgen Prochnow and Irene Worth. The plot is inspired by the life of Maria von Maltzan originally told in the non-fiction book The Last Jews in Berlin by Leonard Gross about a countess who hides her Jewish boyfriend in her apartment in World War II. It was a co-production between the UK and West Germany. It was broadcast on television in the US, but released in cinemas in other countries.