Anonymous Letters
{{Short description|1949 film}}
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{{Infobox film
| name = Anonymous Letters
| image =Anonymous Letters.jpg
| caption =
| director = Arthur Maria Rabenalt
| producer =Frank Clifford
| writer = {{ubl|Annemarie Artinger (novel)|Ernst Hasselbach}}
| starring = {{ubl|Käthe Haack|Tilly Lauenstein|O.E. Hasse}}
| music = Theo Mackeben
| cinematography = Otto Baecker
| editing = Walter Wischniewsky
| studio = Cordial-Film
| distributor = Europa-Filmverleih
| released = {{film date|1949|3|29|df=y}}
| runtime = 95 minutes
| country = Germany
| language = German
| budget =
| gross =
}}
Anonymous Letters ({{langx|de|Anonyme Briefe}}) is a 1949 German drama film directed by Arthur Maria Rabenalt, and starring Käthe Haack, Tilly Lauenstein, and O.E. Hasse.Bock & Bergfelder p. 304 It was shot at the Tempelhof Studios in West Berlin and on location in the city at the time of the Berlin Blockade. The film's sets were designed by the art director Willi Herrmann.
Synopsis
In Occupied Berlin the students at a drama school begin receiving anonymous letters threatening to reveal secrets about them. Considerable mistrusts grows amongst the students, culminating in one of them attempting suicide. Eventually the head of the school calls in the police to investigate.
Cast
{{cast listing|
- Käthe Haack as Toni Gerling
- Tilly Lauenstein as Anita Grauberg
- O.E. Hasse as Alexander Petershagen
- Petra Peters as Ulli Brackmann
- Jeanette Schultze as Monika
- Cornell Borchers as Cornelia
- Addi Adametz as Hanna
- Ann Höling as Ilona
- Eva Rimski as Mariela
- Ute Sielisch as Elfie
- Babsi Schultz-Reckewell as Gesche
- Marianne Prenzel as Rose
- Annemarie Book as Rosanne
- Vlachy König as Lore
- Georg August Koch as Heinrich Brackmann
- Rainer Penkert as Axel Brackmann
- Alfred Braun as Dr. Maurin
- Otto Gebühr as Karl Bundschuh - Postbote
- Helmut Heyne as Dr. Armbruster
- Viktor de Kowa
- Michiko Tanaka
- Willi Schaeffers
- Rudolf Günther Wagner
- Kurt Seifert as Gregor Mauermann - Bauunternehmer
- Christel Henning as Karin, seine Tochter
- Joachim Wedekind as Hans Brackmann
- Theo Mackeben
- Erna Sellmer
- Elsa Wagner
}}
References
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Bibliography
- {{cite book | editor-first1 = Hans-Michael | editor-last1 = Bock | editor-link1 = Hans-Michael Bock | editor-first2 = Tim | editor-last2 = Bergfelder | title = The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema | publisher = Berghahn Books | year = 2009 | location = New York | isbn = 978-1-57181-655-9 }}
External links
- {{IMDb title|0222726}}
{{Arthur Maria Rabenalt}}
Category:1940s German-language films
Category:Films directed by Arthur Maria Rabenalt
Category:German black-and-white films
Category:Films shot at Tempelhof Studios
Category:Films scored by Theo Mackeben
Category:German-language drama films
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