The Orplid Mystery

The Orplid Mystery
The Orplid Mystery
Directed by	Helmut Käutner
Written by	Robert A. Stemmle; Fritz Böttger; Helmut Käutner; Artur Brauner;
Produced by	Artur Brauner
Starring	Horst Caspar; Bettina Moissi; O.E. Hasse;
Cinematography	Werner Krien
Edited by	Johanna Meisel
Music by	Bernhard Eichhorn
Production; company	CCC Films
Distributed by	Allianz Filmverleih
Release date	29 September 1950;
Running time	91 minutes
Country	West Germany
Language	German

The Orplid Mystery or Epilogue (German: Epilog: Das Geheimnis der Orplid) is a 1950 West German thriller film directed by Helmut Käutner and starring Horst Caspar, Bettina Moissi, and O.E. Hasse.^[1] The film did not perform well at the box office on its release.^[2]

It was made at the Spandau Studios of CCC Films. The film's sets were designed by the art director Emil Hasler.

Cast[]

Horst Caspar as Reporter Peter Zabel
Bettina Moissi as Malaienmädchen Leata
O.E. Hasse as Chefredakteur Dr. Mannheim
Hans Leibelt as Cheflektor Kurt Beckmann
Irene von Meyendorff as Christiane Bruckmann alias Conchita
Hilde Hildebrand as Mrs. Eleanor Hoopman
Jeanette Schultze as Lore Bruckmann, Conchitas Schwester
Fritz Kortner as Mr. P. L. Hoopman
Peter van Eyck as Steward Stefan Lund
Hans Christian Blech as Martin Jarzombeck, Bräutigam
Carl Raddatz as Pianist Aldo Siano
Arno Assmann as Tänzer Ermanno
Rolf von Nauckhoff as Pastor Johannes Klappstein
Paul Hörbiger as Musik-Clown 'The Great Teatch'
Arno Paulsen as Mr. Hill
Hans Stiebner as Der Koch
Horst Hächler as Klaus von Werth, Freund des Bräutigams
Gustav Püttjer as Kapitän Feddersen
as Hans Toysen, Lores Freund
Reinhard Kolldehoff as Funker
Horst Breitenfeld as Matrose
Peter Marx as Maschinist
as Matrose
as Maschinist
as Schiffsjunge
Camilla Spira as Pensionswirtin
Blandine Ebinger as Sekretärin Auskunftsbüro
as Verkäuferin
as Bardame
as Schiffsjunge
as Drobitsch
Erwin Biegel as Detektiv
as Maler Phil Urban
Adrian Hoven
Carl Kuhlmann
Helmut Käutner as Meteorologe
as Funker 2
Ilse Werner

References[]

^ Bergfelder p. 148
^ Davidson & Hake p. 50

Bibliography[]

Bergfelder, Tim (2005) [2004]. International Adventures: German Popular Cinema and European Co-Productions in the 1960s. New York: Berghahn Books. ISBN 978-1-57181-539-2.
Davidson, John; Hake, Sabine (2009). Framing the Fifties: Cinema in a Divided Germany. New York: Berghahn Books. ISBN 978-1-84545-536-1.

External links[]

The Orplid Mystery at IMDb

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[1] Bergfelder p. 148

[2] Davidson & Hake p. 50

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