The Orplid Mystery
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Directed by | Helmut Käutner |
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Produced by | Artur Brauner |
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Cinematography | Werner Krien |
Edited by | Johanna Meisel |
Music by | Bernhard Eichhorn |
Production company | CCC Films |
Distributed by | Allianz Filmverleih |
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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[]
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[]
Categories:
- 1950 films
- German-language films
- 1950s spy thriller films
- German spy thriller films
- West German films
- Films directed by Helmut Käutner
- Seafaring films
- German black-and-white films
- Films shot at Spandau Studios
- 1950s German film stubs