''Before Sundown'' (german: Vor Sonnenuntergang) is a 1956 West German
drama film
In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. Drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular super-g ...
directed by
Gottfried Reinhardt
Gottfried Reinhardt (20 March 1913 – 19 July 1994) was an Austrian-born American film director and producer.
Biography
Reinhardt was born in Berlin, the son of the Austrian theater director Max Reinhardt (until 1904: Max Goldmann), manage ...
and starring
Hans Albers
Hans Philipp August Albers (22 September 1891 – 24 July 1960) was a German actor and singer. He was the biggest male movie star in Germany between 1930 and 1960 and one of the most popular German actors of the twentieth century.
Early life
...
,
Annemarie Düringer
Annemarie Düringer (26 November 1925 – 26 November 2014) was a Swiss actress. She was born in Arlesheim, Basel-Landschaft.
The daughter of a Swiss industrialist, she graduated from Cours Simon, Paris in 1946, and from the Max Reinhardt Semi ...
and
Martin Held
Martin Held (1908–1992) was a German television and film actor.
Partial filmography
* '' Dark Eyes'' (1951) - Alexander Grabner
* ''Homesick for You'' (1952) - Direktor Petermann
* '' Canaris Master Spy'' (1954) - Obergruppenfuehrer Heydrich
...
. At the
6th Berlin International Film Festival
The 6th annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from 22 June to 3 July 1956. The FIAPF granted the festival the "A status" during this year, which was previously only reserved for Cannes and Venice. The awards for the first time, we ...
it won the
Golden Bear (Audience award).
It was adapted from the classic play of the same title by
Gerhart Hauptmann
Gerhart Johann Robert Hauptmann (; 15 November 1862 – 6 June 1946) was a German dramatist and novelist. He is counted among the most important promoters of literary naturalism, though he integrated other styles into his work as well. He recei ...
.
[Goble p.211]
It was shot at the
Spandau Studios
The Spandau Studios or CCC Studios were film and television studios located in Spandau, a suburb of Berlin. They were established in 1949 following the Second World War by the producer Artur Brauner
Artur "Atze" Brauner (born Abraham Brauner; ...
in
Berlin
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and
on location in
Vienna
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and the Swiss resort town
St. Moritz. 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 Peter Röhrig and
Rolf Zehetbauer
Rolf Zehetbauer (13 February 1929 – 23 January 2022) was a German production designer, art director and set decorator. Zehetbauer won an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film ''Cabaret''. He died on 23 January 2022, a ...
.
Cast
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Hans Albers
Hans Philipp August Albers (22 September 1891 – 24 July 1960) was a German actor and singer. He was the biggest male movie star in Germany between 1930 and 1960 and one of the most popular German actors of the twentieth century.
Early life
...
as Generaldirektor Mathias Clausen
*
Annemarie Düringer
Annemarie Düringer (26 November 1925 – 26 November 2014) was a Swiss actress. She was born in Arlesheim, Basel-Landschaft.
The daughter of a Swiss industrialist, she graduated from Cours Simon, Paris in 1946, and from the Max Reinhardt Semi ...
as Inken Peters
*
Martin Held
Martin Held (1908–1992) was a German television and film actor.
Partial filmography
* '' Dark Eyes'' (1951) - Alexander Grabner
* ''Homesick for You'' (1952) - Direktor Petermann
* '' Canaris Master Spy'' (1954) - Obergruppenfuehrer Heydrich
...
as Erich Klamroth
*
Claus Biederstaedt
Claus Biederstaedt (28 June 1928 – 18 June 2020) was a German actor. He studied in Hamburg and began his career working with Joseph Offenbach. Among the actors for whom he dubbed were Yves Montand, Peter Falk, Marlon Brando, Vittorio Gassma ...
as Egbert Clausen
*
Hannelore Schroth
Hannelore Emilie Käte Grete Schroth (; 10 January 1922 – 7 July 1987) was a German film, stage, and television actress whose career spanned over five decades.
Career
Born in Berlin in 1922, she was the daughter of popular stage and film actor ...
as Ottilie Klamroth, geb. Clausen
*
Erich Schellow
Erich Schellow (1915–1995) was a German stage, film and television actor.Goble p.54 In the late 1960s he portrayed Sherlock Holmes in a series of adaptations of Arthur Conan Doyle's stories for German television, alongside Paul Edwin Roth as D ...
as Wolfgang Clausen
*
Maria Becker as Bettina Clausen
*
Johanna Hofer
Johanna Hofer (born Johanna Therese Stern; 30 July 1896 – 30 June 1988) was a German film actress. She appeared in 34 films between 1926 and 1982.
Biography
Hofer was born in Berlin. She was the daughter of engineer and later director of ...
as Frau Peters, Inkens Mutter
*
Inge Langen
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as Paula Clausen, geb. Rübsamen
*
Hans Nielsen as Dr. Steynitz, Sanitätsrat
*
Reginald Pasch as Diener
*
Wolfgang Preiss
Wolfgang Preiss (27 February 1910 – 27 November 2002) was a German theatre, film and television actor.
The son of a teacher, Preiss studied philosophy, German, and drama in the early 1930s. He also took private acting classes with Hans Schlen ...
as Dr. Hahnefeld, Syndikus der Clausen-Werke
*
Kurt Vespermann
Kurt Vespermann (1 May 1887 – 13 July 1957) was a German stage and film actor.
Career
Vespermann was born into an actor's family in Culmsee, West Prussia, Imperial Germany today Chełmża, Poland. Already his great-grandparents were ac ...
as Wuttke, Fahrer bei Clausen
*
Franz Weber as Gärtner
References
Bibliography
* Goble, Alan. ''The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film''. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.
External links
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1956 films
1956 drama films
German drama films
West German films
1950s German-language films
Films based on works by Gerhart Hauptmann
Films directed by Gottfried Reinhardt
German black-and-white films
Films about old age
German films based on plays
Films shot at Spandau Studios
1950s German films
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