Covered Tracks
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Directed by | Veit Harlan |
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Cinematography | Bruno Mondi |
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Music by | Hans-Otto Borgmann |
Production company | Majestic-Film |
Distributed by | Tobis Film |
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Running time | 81 minutes |
Country | Germany |
Language | German |
Covered Tracks (German: Verwehte Spuren) is a 1938 German historical drama film directed by Veit Harlan and starring Kristina Söderbaum, Philip Dorn, and Charlotte Schultz.[1]
Cast[]
- Kristina Söderbaum as Séraphine Lawrence
- Philip Dorn as Dr. Fernand Morot
- Charlotte Schultz as Madeleine Lawrence, Séraphines Mutter
- Friedrich Kayßler as Polizeipräfekt von Paris
- Paul Dahlke as Henry Poquet, Boulevardschriftsteller
- Heinrich Schroth as Graf Duval, Präsident des Weltaussstellungskomitees
- as Fragonard, Polizeikommissar
- Josef Sieber as Maurice, Hausdiener
- Leo Peukert as Dubois, Polizeisekretär
- Edith Meinhard as Jeanette, Stubenmädchen
- as Colette, Maurices Freundin
- Clemens Hasse as Gaston, Hausdiener
- Ernst Rotmund as Nachtportier
- Paul Bildt as Attaché an der englischen Botschaft
- Valy Arnheim as Chefredakteur des 'Figaro'
- Hans Stiebner as Pigeon, Druckereibesitzer
- Klaus Detlef Sierck as Armand, Hotelpage
- Jakob Tiedtke as Dompierre, Hotelier
- as Tagesportier
- Hermann Wagner as Gustave, Musikstudent
- as Mme. Printemps
- as Mme. Chaumette
- as Sekretär an der englischen Botschaft
- as Sekretärin Poquets
- as Colettes Tänzer beim Hausball
- as Malerlehrling
- Charles Willy Kayser as Pariser Hotelportier
- as Empfangsmädchen bei Dr. Morot
- as Patient bei Dr. Morot
- as Page im Hotel De la Russie
- Ewald Wenck
- Heinrich Vogt as Ballhausdirektor
Plot summary[]
A young woman named Séraphine checks into a Parisian hotel with her ailing mother. When she comes back to the hotel with her mother's medication, she finds their room vacant and none of the staff remembers ever seeing her or her mother checking into the hotel. Séraphine then embarks on quest to uncover the mystery of her mother's disappearance and prove her own sanity.
See also[]
- Midnight Warning (1932)
- The Lady Vanishes (1938)
- So Long at the Fair (1950)
- Dangerous Crossing (1953)
- Flightplan (2005)
- Abandoned (2010)
References[]
Bibliography[]
- Heins, Laura Julia (2013). Nazi Film Melodrama. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. ISBN 978-0-252-09502-3.
External links[]
Categories:
- 1938 films
- German-language films
- German films
- Films of Nazi Germany
- 1930s historical drama films
- German historical drama films
- Films directed by Veit Harlan
- Films about missing people
- Films set in 1867
- Films set in Paris
- Films based on urban legends
- Films with screenplays by Thea von Harbou
- German black-and-white films
- Tobis Film films
- 1938 drama films
- 1930s German film stubs