| Beyond the Curtain | |
| Director: | Compton Bennett |
| Producer: | John Martin |
| Starring: | Richard Greene Eva Bartok Marius Goring Lucie Mannheim |
| Music: | Kenneth Pakeman |
| Cinematography: | Eric Cross |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Language: | English |
Beyond the Curtain is a 1960 British drama film written and directed by Compton Bennett, and starring Richard Greene and Eva Bartok.[1]
A refugee from East Germany finds herself trapped in her home city of Dresden when a plane she is travelling on between Berlin and West Germany is forced down. She is used by the Stasi, who want her to help them to find her dissident brother.
The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "This inept melodrama creates little impact or excitement during the first half, and its later attempts at suspense belong to the early days of the serial. Human interest remains flabby throughout, Eva Bartok's strident and hysterical performance being just about what the woefully unconvincing script deserves, and only Eric Cross's photography, and a dash of surface action, rise above the generally tepid level."[2]