Poison in the Zoo

Poison in the Zoo
Directed by	Hans Müller Wolfgang Staudte
Written by
Produced by
Starring	Irene von Meyendorff Carl Raddatz Petra Peters
Cinematography	Ekkehard Kyrath
Edited by	Anneliese Schönnenbeck
Music by
Production company	Camera-Filmproduktion
Distributed by	National-Film
Release date	24 January 1952
Running time	84 minutes
Country	West Germany
Language	German

Poison in the Zoo (German: Gift im Zoo) is a 1952 West German thriller film directed by Hans Müller and Wolfgang Staudte and starring Irene von Meyendorff, Carl Raddatz and Petra Peters.

Production[]

During production in 1951, the director Wolfgang Staudte was removed and replaced when the West German authorities refused to consider it eligible for state subsidies unless Staudte declare that he would no longer work for the DEFA studios of the Communist East German state. Staudte, who had made several major productions for DEFA, refused and was replaced by Müller.^[1]

It was shot partly on location at the Tierpark Hagenbeck in Hamburg.

The film's sets were designed by Albrecht Becker and Herbert Kirchhoff.

Synopsis[]

After a series of mysterious deaths of animals at a zoo the police are called in to investigate.

Cast[]

• Irene von Meyendorff as Vera Pauly
• Carl Raddatz as Dr. Martin Rettberg
• Petra Peters as Jutta Flamm
• Ernst Schröder as Oskar Beck
• Hermann Speelmans as Kriminalrat Walter Glasbrenner
• Nicolas Koline as Wärter Mathias
• as Oberwärter Kruschke
• as Wärter Robby
• Helmut Peine as Kriminalkommissar Werner
• as Wirtschafterin Karola
• as Gaby Rettberg
• as Oberwärter Berger
• as Polizeichef Dr. Wöltje

References[]

Bibliography[]

• Hans-Michael Bock and Tim Bergfelder. The Concise Cinegraph: An Encyclopedia of German Cinema. Berghahn Books, 2009.
• Hanna Schissler. The Miracle Years: A Cultural History of West Germany, 1949–1968. Princeton University Press, 2001.

External links[]

• Poison in the Zoo at IMDb

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