Filmpodium, a repertory cinema operated by the Mayor of Zurich’s Office of Cultural Affairs, screens around 350 different films per year. Thematic cycles and retrospectives of classic works of cinema run side-by-side with premieres of distinctive ...
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He Ran All the Way
John Berry (USA, 1951)
He Ran All the Way offered John Garfield, Hollywood’s foremost working-class hero, one last major role: following a botched robbery, the petty criminal Nick shoots a police officer whilst on the run. He barricades himself inside a family’s flat and takes them hostage. He Ran All the Way is a key film of the Blacklist era and, at the same time, a kind of culmination: John Garfield died a year later, aged 39, of a heart attack. When FBI agents tried to serve him with a HUAC summons, John Berry fled through a window from his flat and emigrated to Europe. He chose Paris: ‘I didn’t want to speak English any more.’ (hb)
78 min. / sw / DCP / E/e*
Before the film: A discussion with Ehsan Khoshbakht, film historian and curator of the ‘Red & Black – Hollywood Left and the Blacklist’ retrospective at the 2026 Locarno Film Festival, in English, 30 minutes
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Thursday, November 19, 2026
20:30 - 21:48 o'clock
Friday, December 18, 2026
18:30 - 19:48 o'clock
Sunday, December 27, 2026
18:30 - 19:48 o'clock
Before the film: A discussion with Ehsan Khoshbakht, film historian and curator of the ‘Red & Black – Hollywood Left and the Blacklist’ retrospective at the 2026 Locarno Film Festival, in English, 30'
Regie: John BerryDrehbuch: Hugo Butler, Dalton Trumbo
Autor: Ross Sam
Kamera: James Wong Howe
Musik: Franz Waxman
Schnitt: Francis D. Lyon
Besetzung: John Garfield (Nick Robey), Shelley Winters (Peg Dobbs), Wallace Ford (Mr. Dobbs), Selena Royle (Mrs. Dobbs), Gladys George (Mrs. Robey), Norman Lloyd (Al Molin)
Filmpodium Kino
Nüschelerstrasse 11
8001 Zürich
+41 (0)44 415 33 66
info@filmpodium.ch
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The cinema is accessible for wheelchairs and equipped with a wireless assistive listening system.
