Where to Watch Wet Asphalt (1958) in the US

What it's about

In Berlin, when the journalist Greg Bachmann is released from prison six months before the end of his sentence, there is a driver named Jupp waiting for him. Soon he learns that the famous journalist Cesar Boyd was the responsible for the shorter sentence. Cesar offers a position of his assistant to Greg; in return, Boyd would write his story about his interviews to war criminals and Greg would help him in other matters. Meanwhile Boyd welcomes the daughter of a deceased friend, Bettina, and he becomes her guardian. Greg and Bettina feels immediately attracted by each other but Boyd is also interested in Bettina. When Boyd needs to send an article to a newspaper in Paris, he fabricates a story of a group of five German soldiers that have lived in a bunker in Poland for six years. In the end, one blind soldier would have survived and was sent to a Polish hospital. The story becomes a great sensation, affecting the governments of Poland, Russia and Germany and their inhabitants. When Greg discovers the big lie of his boss and mentor, he has to take an attitude; but Boyd is an old fox.

Cast and crew

Director

Frank Wisbar

Writer

Will Tremper

Starring

Horst Buchholz, Martin Held, Maria Perschy

Details

Language

German

Country

West Germany

Awards

1 win & 3 nominations

Where to Watch Wet Asphalt (1958) in the US — common questions

Where to watch Wet Asphalt in the United States?

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Can I stream Wet Asphalt or do I have to rent it in the United States?

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