Turtledove General Delivery

1952 West German comedy film
CinematographyPeter ZellerEdited byGertrud Hinz-NischwitzMusic byHans-Martin Majewski
Production
company
Occident Film
Distributed byDiamant-Filmverleih
Release date
  • 29 July 1952 (1952-07-29)
Running time
80 minutesCountryWest GermanyLanguageGerman

Turtledove General Delivery (German: Postlagernd Turteltaube) is a 1952 West German comedy film directed by Gerhard T. Buchholz and starring Horst Niendorf, Barbara Rütting and Heinz Schacht.[1] The title is a reference to the Poste restante mail service, which is used as a contract point by the film's characters. The film portrays a number of residents of East Germany who decide to escape to the West.

Cast

  • Horst Niendorf as Max Beutner
  • Barbara Rütting as Ilse Krüger
  • Heinz Schacht as Fürchtegott Plischke
  • Ilse Parther as Ida Plischke, seine Frau
  • Wolfgang Jansen as Ernst, deren Sohn
  • Reinhard Kolldehoff
  • Wolfgang Condrus as Gustav, deren Sohn
  • Frietmar Wehner as Adolf, deren Sohn
  • Hermann Schomberg as Professor Richard Gomoll
  • Emilie Altvater as Jutta Gomoll - seine Frau
  • Olga Limburg as Freifrau Hermione von Gilsen-Bernburg
  • Alf Marholm as Benno Perlitz, Zeichner
  • Paul Albert Krumm as Wolfgang Hartung, Redakteur
  • Lu Säuberlich as Lena Forche, Redakteurin
  • Ernst Stahl-Nachbaur as Arthur Gomoll, Generaldirektor
  • Roma Bahn as Camilla Gomoll, seine Frau

References

  1. ^ Bock & Bergfelder p. 305

Bibliography

  • Hans-Michael Bock and Tim Bergfelder. The Concise Cinegraph: An Encyclopedia of German Cinema. Berghahn Books, 2009.

External links

  • Turtledove General Delivery at IMDb Edit this at Wikidata


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