The Shipwrecker

Directed by Wolf-Eckart Bühler
1984    1h 35m
6.4
An adaptation of actor Sterling Hayden's autobiography, WANDERER, with three different actors portraying Hayden in his various aspects, with special focus on Hayden's brief flirtation with the communist party, his testimony before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Un-American Activities, and his subsequent lifelong shame at having named others in his testimony. The film depends on Hayden's actual words from his autobiography and is both documentary and meditation on the psychology of the actor.
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Cast of The Shipwrecker
  • Burkhard DriestSterling Hayden
  • Rüdiger VoglerSterling Hayden
  • Hannes WaderSterling Hayden
  • Hans-Michael RehbergPsychiatrist
  • Edgar Selge
  • Klaus Emmerich
  • Kristina van Eyck
  • Roger Fritz
  • Imo Moszkowicz
  • Hans QuestNarrator
  • Konstantin Wecker
  • Donald Arthur
  • Nicolas BriegerNarrator
  • Kent O. Doering
  • Wolf Heckmann
  • Paul B. Kleiser
  • Michael Krüger
  • Martin Moszkowicz
  • Hans Noever
  • Enno Patalas
  • Hans Günther Pflaum
  • Dieter Schidor
  • Klaus Schreyer
  • Laurens Straub
  • Susann B. Winter

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