The Sinful Border
The Sinful Border | |
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Directed by | Robert A. Stemmle |
Written by |
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Produced by | Artur Brauner |
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Cinematography | Igor Oberberg |
Edited by | Walter Wischniewsky |
Music by | Herbert Trantow |
Production company | CCC Films |
Distributed by | Prisma-Filmverleih |
Release date |
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Running time | 87 minutes |
Country | West Germany |
Language | German |
The Sinful Border (German: Sündige Grenze) is a 1951 West German crime film directed by Robert A. Stemmle and starring Dieter Borsche, Inge Egger and Peter Mosbacher. Jan Hendriks won the German Film Award as Best Newcomer. It focuses on the smuggling of coffee, at the time an expensive luxury, into Germany.[1] It is also known by the alternative title of Illegal Border.
It was shot at the Spandau Studios in Berlin. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Mathias Matthies and Ellen Schmidt.
Cast[]
- Dieter Borsche as Hans Fischer
- Inge Egger as Marianne Mertens
- Peter Mosbacher as Zollkommissar Dietrich
- Jan Hendriks as Jan Krapp
- as Cilly
- Gisela von Collande as Mutter Mertens
- Alice Treff as Mutter Walters
- Ilse Furstenberg
- Ernst Schroder as Hugo Mielke
- as Vater Mertens
- Erich Dunskus
- Cornelia Froboess as Bertha
- Wolfgang Jansen as Heinz Mertens
References[]
- ^ Baer p.106
Bibliography[]
- Baer, Hester. Dismantling the Dream Factory: Gender, German Cinema, and the Postwar Quest for a New Film Language. Berghahn Books, 2012.
External links[]
Categories:
- 1951 films
- German-language films
- 1951 crime films
- German crime films
- West German films
- Films directed by Robert A. Stemmle
- Social realism in film
- German black-and-white films
- Films shot at Spandau Studios
- 1950s German film stubs