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The Stranger(Movie, 1946)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 36min | Genres: Crime, Drama, Thriller
The StrangerRating: 3.6/5 (with 243243 votes)
The Stranger is a 1946 American thriller film noir directed and co-written by Orson Welles, starring Edward G. Robinson, Loretta Young and Orson Welles. Welles's third completed feature film as director and his first film noir, it centers on a war crimes investigator tracking a high-ranking Nazi fugitive to a Connecticut town. It is the first Hollywood film to present documentary footage of the Holocaust. The film was nominated for the Golden Lion (then-called the ‘Grand International Prize’) at the 8th Venice International Film Festival. Screenwriter Victor Trivas received an Oscar nomination for Best Story. The film entered the public domain when its copyright was not renewed. ()
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Awards & Nominations for The Stranger

Academy Award for Best Story

About The Stranger

An investigator from the War Crimes Commission travels to Connecticut to find an infamous Nazi, who may be hiding out in a small town in the guise of a distinguished professor engaged to the Supreme Court Justice’s daughter.

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Original Trailer(Trailer, 1:53)

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Additional Information

Production country: United States of America (USA)
Original language: English (EN)
Spoken languages: English (EN), Spanish (ES), French (FR)
Translated into 23 languages: Bulgarian (BG), Catalan (CA), Danish (DA), German (DE), English (EN), Spanish (ES), Persian (FA), Finnish (FI), French (FR), Hebrew (HE), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Korean (KO), Lithuanian (LT), Dutch (NL), Polish (PL), Portuguese (PT), Romanian (RO), Russian (RU), Swedish (SV), Turkish (TR), Ukrainian (UK), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)
Status: Released
Release date DE: 02/03/1977 (World premiere: 07/02/1946)
Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):
"Die Spur des Fremden"
"Die Spur eines Fremden"
"El extranjero"
"El extraño"
"Le Criminel"
"이방인"
"Svetimšalis"
"De Vreemdeling"
"Främlingen"
Budget: 1,034,000 USD
Revenue: 3,216,000 USD (= 311%)
Color: Black & White (B/W)

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