''At the Well in Front of the Gate'' (german: Am Brunnen vor dem Tore, link=no) is a 1952 West German
romance film
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directed by
Hans Wolff and starring
Sonja Ziemann
Sonja Alice Selma Toni Ziemann (; 8 February 1926 – 17 February 2020) was a German film and television actress. In the 1950s, she was among Germany's most prominent actresses, awarded the 1950 Bambi for appearing, together with Rudolf Prack, i ...
,
Hans Stüwe
Hans Stüwe (14 May 1901 – 13 May 1976) was a German film actor.
Selected filmography
* ''Prinz Louis Ferdinand'' (1927)
* ''Potsdam'' (1927)
* '' The Transformation of Dr. Bessel'' (1927)
* ''The Bordello in Rio'' (1927)
* ''Assassination'' (1 ...
and
Paul Klinger
Paul Karl Heinrich Klinksik (14 June 1907, Essen – 14 November 1971, Munich) was a German stage and film actor who also worked in radio drama and soundtrack dubbing.
Family life
His father, a civil engineer, was Karl Heinrich Klinksik; his ...
.
[Koepnick, p. 71] It was shot in
Agfacolor
An Agfacolor slide dated 1937 from café in Oslo, Norway.
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An Agfacolor slide dated 1938 from Zakopane in Poland.
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at the
Tempelhof Studios
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in
West Berlin
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and
on location around
Dinkelsbühl
Dinkelsbühl () is a historic town in Central Franconia, a region of Germany that is now part of the state of Bavaria, in southern Germany. Dinkelsbühl is a former free imperial city of the Holy Roman Empire. In local government terms, Dinkelsbà ...
in
Bavaria
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. The film's sets were designed by the
art director
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It is the charge of a sole art director to supervise and ...
s
Willi A. Herrmann,
Heinrich Weidemann
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Selected filmography
* '' The Gambler'' (1938)
* '' The Swedish Nightingale'' (1941)
* '' Ghost in the Castle'' (1947)
* '' The Trip to Marrakesh'' (1949)
* '' Scandal at the ...
and Peter Schlewski.
Synopsis
Inge Bachner has three male suitors interested in her, including the owner of a
petrol station
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Gasoline ...
and a former
RAF
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pilot
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.
Cast
References
Bibliography
* Lutz Peter Koepnick. ''The Cosmopolitan Screen: German Cinema and the Global Imaginary, 1945 to the Present''. University of Michigan Press, 2007.
External links
*
Am Brunnen vor dem a different 1922 film of the same name
1952 films
West German films
German romance films
1950s romance films
1950s German-language films
Films directed by Hans Wolff
1950s German films
Films shot in Bavaria
Films shot at Tempelhof Studios
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