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title: 'Confessions of a Nazi Spy (1939)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Anatole Litvak'
released: '1939-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 104
genres:
  - 'Drama'
  - 'War'
  - 'Thriller'
countries:
  - 'United States'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/confessions-of-a-nazi-spy-1939'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031173/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Confessions of a Nazi Spy (1939)

1939 · 104 min · Drama, War, Thriller · United States


## Synopsis

Confessions of a Nazi Spy is a 1939 American spy political thriller film directed by Anatole Litvak for Warner Bros. Pictures. It was the first explicitly anti-Nazi film to be produced by a major Hollywood studio, being released in May 1939, four months before the beginning of World War II in Europe, and two and a half years before the United States' official entry into the war.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Anatole Litvak](https://cinepixo.com/people/anatole-litvak)
- **Screenplay:** [John Wexley](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-wexley)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Max Steiner](https://cinepixo.com/people/max-steiner)
- **Producer:** [Hal B. Wallis](https://cinepixo.com/people/hal-b-wallis)
- **Director of Photography:** [Ernest Haller](https://cinepixo.com/people/ernest-haller), [Sol Polito](https://cinepixo.com/people/sol-polito)
- **Editor:** [Owen Marks](https://cinepixo.com/people/owen-marks)

## Cast

- [Ward Bond](https://cinepixo.com/people/ward-bond)
- [Leo Reuss](https://cinepixo.com/people/leo-reuss)
- [Francis Lederer](https://cinepixo.com/people/francis-lederer)
- [Frederick Burton](https://cinepixo.com/people/frederick-burton)
- [Edward G. Robinson](https://cinepixo.com/people/edward-g-robinson)
- [William von Brincken](https://cinepixo.com/people/william-von-brincken)
- [Henry Victor](https://cinepixo.com/people/henry-victor)
- [Charles Trowbridge](https://cinepixo.com/people/charles-trowbridge)
- [George Sanders](https://cinepixo.com/people/george-sanders)
- [Sig Ruman](https://cinepixo.com/people/sig-ruman)
- [Wolfgang Zilzer](https://cinepixo.com/people/wolfgang-zilzer)
- [Martin Kosleck](https://cinepixo.com/people/martin-kosleck)
- [Grace Stafford](https://cinepixo.com/people/grace-stafford)
- [James Stephenson](https://cinepixo.com/people/james-stephenson)
- [Dorothy Tree](https://cinepixo.com/people/dorothy-tree)

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