Summary
Family drama starring Cornell Borchers and Yvonne Mitchell. After the Second World War, a boy's mother, assumed dead in the Auschwitz concentration camp, returns to claim her son from the foster parents who have brought him up.
The Divided Heart
- Drama
- 1954
- Charles Crichton
- 86 mins
- PG
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IMDBReview
This British melodrama would be dismissed as sentimental tosh if it wasn't based on a true story that hit the headlines in the mid-1940s. Drawing on the actual records of the case, director Charles Crichton uses a series of artful flashbacks to pad out the courtroom battle at the centre of the action, as biological mother Yvonne Mitchell fights Cornell Borchers for custody of the child Borchers adopted as a war orphan. Crichton lays on the pathos so thickly that the emotional drama never really tugs at our heartstrings.
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Credits
Cast
| role | name |
|---|---|
| Inga | Cornell Borchers |
| Sonja | Yvonne Mitchell |
| Franz | Armin Dahlen |
| Chief Justice | Alexander Knox |
| Marks | Geoffrey Keen |
| Toni | Michel Ray |
| Toni | Martin Keller |
| First Justice | Liam Redmond |
| Second Justice | Eddie Byrne |
| Josip | Theodore Bikel |
| Dr Muller | Ferdy Mayne |
| Professor Miran | André Mikhelson |
Crew
| role | name |
|---|---|
| Director | Charles Crichton |
Details
- Theatrical distributor
- General Film Dist Ltd
- Languages
- English | Slovenian
- Available on
- DVD
- Formats
- Black and white
