The House in Karp Lane

{{Short description|1965 film}}

{{Infobox film

| name = The House in Karp Lane

| image = The House in Karp Lane.jpg

| caption = DVD cover

| director = Kurt Hoffmann

| producer = Heinz Angermeyer

| writer = {{ubl|Gerd Angermann|M. Y. Ben-Gavriel (novel)}}

| narrator =

| starring = {{ubl|Jana Brejchová|Edith Schultze-Westrum|Wolfgang Kieling}}

| music = Zdeněk Liška

| cinematography = Josef Illík

| editing = Dagmar Hirtz

| studio = {{ubl|Filmaufbau|Independent Film}}

| distributor = Neue Filmform Heiner Braun

| released = {{Film date|1965|03|12|df=yes}}

| runtime = 110 minutes

| country = West Germany

| language = German

| budget =

| gross =

}}

The House in Karp Lane ({{langx|de|Das Haus in der Karpfengasse}}) is a 1965 West German drama film directed by Kurt Hoffmann and starring Jana Brejchová, Edith Schultze-Westrum and Wolfgang Kieling.

It portrays the Jewish residents of a Prague boarding house during the German occupation of Czechoslovakia. While the film received several awards, it was a major commercial failure.Bock & Bergfelder p.207 Hoffmann then returned to directing the comedies he was better known for.

The film was shot at the Barrandov Studios in Prague, and on location around the city.

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Bibliography

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