The Big Chance (1957 German film)
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Directed by | Hans Quest |
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Cinematography | Willy Winterstein |
Edited by | Walter von Bonhorst |
Music by | Lotar Olias |
Production company | Melodie Film |
Distributed by | Herzog-Filmverleih |
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Running time | 98 minutes |
Country | West Germany |
Language | German |
The Big Chance (German: Die große Chance) is a 1957 West German romantic comedy film directed by Hans Quest and starring Walter Giller, Gardy Granass and Michael Cramer.[1] Shot and set in Heidelberg, it was one of a series of Schlager music films made around the time.[2]
The film's sets were designed by the art directors Dieter Bartels and Helmut Nentwig. It was shot in Agfacolor.
Main cast[]
- Walter Giller as Walter Gerber
- Gardy Granass as Ruth Degner
- Michael Cramer as Manfred Hallersperg
- Wera Frydtberg as Erika Hallersperg
- Robert Freitag as Kaplan Sommer
- Loni Heuser as Henriette 'Henny' Hallersperg
- Käthe Haack as Anna Gerber
- Ernst Waldow as Tankstellenbesitzer Oskar Magenau
- Friedrich Domin as Bischof
- as Studienrat Heinrich Gerber
- Bruno Fritz as Fabrikant Otto Hallersperg
- Johanna Hofer as Großmutter Degner
- Erna Sellmer as Wirtschafterin Luise
- Gisela Schlüter as Susi Viereck
- as Eugen Gerber
- as Lilli
- as Klaus Pranner
- Willi Schaeffers as Theo Janicke
- Ernst Jacobi as Tommy Reichmann
- Willi Rose as Willi Baumann
- as Frau Lehmann, Köchin
- Peter Vogel as Peter Fiedler
- as Heinz
- Kurt Pratsch-Kaufmann as Conferencier
- Freddy Quinn as Freddy
References[]
- ^ Rasmussen, Bjørn (1968). Filmens hvem-vad-hvor: Udenlanske film 1950–1967 (in Danish). Politiken. p. 876.
- ^ Koepnick p. 76
Bibliography[]
- Koepnick, Lutz Peter; Schindler, Stephan K., eds. (2007). The Cosmopolitan Screen: German Cinema and the Global Imaginary, 1945 to the Present. University of Michigan Press. ISBN 978-0-472-06966-8.
External links[]
Categories:
- 1957 films
- German-language films
- West German films
- German romantic comedy films
- 1957 romantic comedy films
- Films directed by Hans Quest
- Films set in Heidelberg
- Romantic comedy film stubs
- 1950s German film stubs