Beloved Impostor

{{Short description|1961 film}}

{{other uses|Beloved Impostor (disambiguation)}}

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{{Infobox film

|name = Beloved Impostor

|image = Beloved Impostor (1961 film).jpg

|caption = Theatrical film poster

|native_name = {{Infobox name module|de|Geliebte Hochstaplerin}}

|director = Ákos Ráthonyi

|producer = Walter Koppel
Eberhard Krause
Gyula Trebitsch

|writer = Gregor von Rezzori
Charles Regnier

|based_on = {{based on|La Prétentaine|Jacques Deval}}

|starring = Nadja Tiller
Walter Giller
Elke Sommer

|music = Siegfried Franz

|cinematography = Günther Anders

|editing = Caspar van den Berg
Ursula van den Berg

|studio = Real Film

|distributor = Europa-Filmverleih

|released = {{Film date|1961|12|16|df=yes}}

|runtime = 88 minutes

|country = West Germany

|language = German

}}

Beloved Impostor (German: Geliebte Hochstaplerin) is a 1961 German comedy film directed by Ákos Ráthonyi and starring Nadja Tiller, Walter Giller, Elke Sommer and Dietmar Schönherr.{{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, NY|page=11|isbn=1571816550|jstor=j.ctt1x76dm6}} It is based on a play by Jacques Deval.[https://web.archive.org/web/20090207042557/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/217491 BFI.org]

The film's sets were designed by the art directors Albrecht Becker and Herbert Kirchhoff. It was shot at the Wandsbek Studios in Hamburg with location shooting aboard the ocean liner SS Hanseatic.