No Place for Love

No Place for Love
Heinz Lausch and Bruni Löbel
Directed by	Hans Deppe
Written by	Margarete Hackebeil Wolfgang W. Parth Hans Deppe
Starring	Bruni Löbel Heinz Lausch Ernst Legal
Cinematography	Kurt Schulz
Edited by
Music by	Hanson Milde-Meissner
Production company	DEFA
Distributed by
Release date	31 March 1947
Running time	82 minutes
Country	Germany
Language	German

No Place for Love (German: Kein Platz für Liebe) is a 1947 German comedy film directed by Hans Deppe and starring Bruni Löbel, Heinz Lausch and Ernst Legal.^[1] It was made in the Soviet Sector of Berlin by the state-controlled DEFA company. It is part of the post-war tradition of rubble films. Its plot revolves around the shortage of housing in the bombed-out city.

The film's sets were designed by the art director Otto Erdmann and Kurt Herlth.

Synopsis[]

While on leave in Berlin during the Second World War, a soldier named Hans meets a young woman named Monika. They fall in love and make plans for a future together after the war. Yet their later attempts to find an apartment and get married are hindered by the housing shortage and they have to stay separately with relatives.

Cast[]

• Bruni Löbel as Monika
• Heinz Lausch as Hans Winkelmann
• Ernst Legal as William Spier
• Elsa Wagner as Niobe
• Margarete Kupfer as Frau Kruse
• as Peter
• Wilhelm Bendow as Der Verdrießliche
• Franz-Otto Krüger as Der Sehnsüchtige
• Walter Gross
• Ewald Wenck
• as
• Erich Dunskus
• Toni Tetzlaff
• Antonie Jaeckel
• Else Ehser

References[]

Bibliography[]

• Karl, Lars & Skopal, Pavel. Cinema in Service of the State: Perspectives on Film Culture in the GDR and Czechoslovakia, 1945–1960. Berghahn Books, 2015.

External links[]

• No Place for Love at IMDb

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