Director: Eduard Hoesch
Script: Karl Jantsch (Karl Kurzmayer), Eduard Hoesch
Cast: Maria Andergast, Rudolf Prack, Hans Holt, Willy Danek, Karl Skraup u. a.
Camera: Karl Kurzmayer, Anton Pucher
Music: Frank Fox, Erich Meder
Production: Donau-Film

The programmatic title Der weite Weg (The long way) delivers only in part on its promise of initiating a new start for Austrian film after 1945. In this saga of returnees, authenticity grows mainly on the fringes of the narrative: where the obvious effects of the war produce forms of “poor cinema,” with several surprising, nearly neo-realistic moments.