Under the Thousand Lanterns
1952 film
- Erich Engel
- Robert Gilbert (novel)
- Robert A. Stemmle
- Walter Koppel
- Gyula Trebitsch
- Michel Auclair
- Gisela Trowe
- Hanna Rucker
Production
company
company
Real Film
Release date
- 10 April 1952 (1952-04-10)
Running time
- France
- West Germany
Under the Thousand Lanterns (German: Unter den tausend Laternen) is a 1952 French-West German crime film directed by Erich Engel and starring Michel Auclair, Gisela Trowe, and Hanna Rucker.[1] It was entered into the 1952 Cannes Film Festival.[2] It was made by Real Film at the Wandsbek Studios in Hamburg and on location in the city. The film's sets were designed by Albrecht Becker and Herbert Kirchhoff.
Synopsis
The singer Elisa visits the house of the composer of the new revue she is to star in, only to find his dead body. Suspicions fall on several of the murdered man's colleagues including the French musician Michel Dumas, who had quarrelled with the deceased who had been passing off his compositions as his own, as well as on Elisa herself.
Cast
- Michel Auclair as Michel Dumas
- Gisela Trowe as Betty
- Hanna Rucker as Elisa
- Inge Meysel as Auguste
- René Deltgen as Kommissar Dr. Hennings
- Willy Maertens as Mahnke, Gerichtsvollzieher
- Ernst Schröder as Braun
- Carl-Heinz Schroth as Lüders, Theaterdirektor
- Joseph Offenbach as Taxichauffeur
- Carl Voscherau as Protokollführer
- Katharina Brauren as Lissy, Garderobiere
References
- ^ Parish & Canham, p. 103.
- ^ "Festival de Cannes: Unter den tausend Laternen". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 18 January 2009.
Bibliography
- Parish, James Robert; Canham, Kingsley (1976). Film Directors Guide: Western Europe. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-0908-6.
External links
- Under the Thousand Lanterns at IMDb
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Films directed by Erich Engel
- Love Is the Power of Women (1924)
- Who Takes Love Seriously? (1931)
- Five from the Jazz Band (1932)
- Inge and the Millions (1933)
- Hard Luck Mary (1934)
- The Secret of Cavelli (1934)
- ... nur ein Komödiant 1935)
- Pygmalion (1935)
- The Night With the Emperor (1936)
- Victoria in Dover (1936)
- A Wedding Dream (1936)
- Dangerous Game (1937)
- The Muzzle (1938)
- A Hopeless Case (1938)
- Hotel Sacher (1939)
- Our Miss Doctor (1940)
- Nanette (1940)
- Much Ado About Nixi (1942)
- Blum Affair (1948)
- Journey to Happiness (1948)
- The Beaver Coat (1949)
- Under the Thousand Lanterns (1952)
- The Merry Vineyard (1952)
- Consul Strotthoff (1954)
- The Man of My Life (1954)
- Before God and Man (1955)
- Love Without Illusions (1955)
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