Taiga (1958 film)
Taiga | |
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Directed by | Wolfgang Liebeneiner |
Written by | Herbert Reinecker |
Produced by | Utz Utermann |
Starring | |
Cinematography | Georg Krause |
Edited by | Margot von Schlieffen |
Music by | |
Production company | |
Distributed by |
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Release date | 28 August 1958 |
Running time | 100 minutes |
Country | West Germany |
Language | German |
Taiga is a 1958 West German drama film directed by Wolfgang Liebeneiner and starring Ruth Leuwerik, Hannes Messemer and Günter Pfitzmann.[1]
It was shot at the Bavaria Studios in Munich. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Robert Herlth and . The title refers to the taiga that covers much of Siberia.
Synopsis[]
After the Second World War a female Doctor tends to the German prisoners held in a camp in Siberia.
Cast[]
- Ruth Leuwerik as Hanna Dietrich
- Hannes Messemer as Roeder
- Günter Pfitzmann as Dickmann
- Viktor Staal as Weber
- Hans Quest as Weinert
- as Reimers
- Walter Ladengast as Bachmann
- Willi Rose as Berthold
- Charles Regnier as Becker
- Alexander Engel as Sazarin
- as Westrecht
- as Kessler
- as Schönreich
- Egon Vogel as Beyfuss
- as Fahlke
- as Seitz
- Peter Capell as Richter
- Arnulf Schröder as Feuerbach
- Wolfgang Büttner as Sennewald
- Wolf Ackva as Engelhardt
- as Malinkovic
- Peter Vogel as Winter
References[]
- ^ Frey p. 44
Bibliography[]
- Frey, Mattias. Postwall German Cinema: History, Film History and Cinephilia. Berghahn Books, 2013.
External links[]
Categories:
- German-language films
- 1958 films
- West German films
- German drama films
- 1958 drama films
- Films directed by Wolfgang Liebeneiner
- Eastern Front of World War II films
- World War II prisoner of war films
- Bavaria Film films
- Films shot at Bavaria Studios
- 1950s German film stubs