''Girl with a Future'' (german: Mädchen mit Zukunft) is a 1954 West German

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directed by Thomas Engel and starring

Herta Staal Herta Staal (29 March 1930 – 2 October 2021) was an Austrian film and television actress. Selected filmography * '' The Charming Young Lady'' (1953) * '' The Dancing Heart'' (1953) * '' My Sister and I'' (1954) * ''Clivia'' (1954) * ''The Gre ...

Peter Pasetti Peter Pasetti (1916–1996) was a German stage, television and film actor. He played a number of leading roles in post-Second World War productions such as the operetta film '' A Night in Venice'' (1953).Goble p.446 From the late 1950s he appeared ...

and

Nadja Tiller Nadja Tiller (born 16 March 1929 in Vienna, Austria) is an Austrian actress. She was one of the most popular German-speaking actresses of international films of the 1950s and 1960s. Biography Nadja Tiller, daughter of actor Anton Tiller of Vie ...

.Bock & Bergfelder p.519 It was shot at the

Tempelhof Studios The Tempelhof Studios are a film studio located in Tempelhof in the German capital of Berlin. They were founded in 1912, during the silent era, by German film pioneer Alfred Duskes, who built a glass-roofed studio on the site with financial back ...

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.The film's sets were designed by the

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and

Walter Kutz Walter Kutz (1904 – 1983) was a German art director.Langford p.223 Selected filmography * ''Nora'' (1944) * '' Dreaming'' (1944) * ''The Silent Guest'' (1945) * ''And the Heavens Above Us'' (1947) * ''Nights on the Nile'' (1949) * ''The Chaste ...

Cast

as Inge Wendler *

as Achmed Spiro *

as Fatme * Hans Richter as Peter *

Grethe Weiser Grethe Weiser (; 27 February 1903 – 2 October 1970) was a German actress. Biography Born in Hanover, she spent her childhood in Dresden. She escaped from her dominant and sometimes violent father by marrying a Jewish confectionery manufactu ...

as Frau Sanders *

Carl-Heinz Schroth Carl-Heinz Schroth (29 June 1902 – 19 July 1989) was a German actor and film director. He appeared in 60 films between 1931 and 1989. He also directed seven films between 1953 and 1963. He was born in Innsbruck, Austria, to Else Ruttershei ...

as Otto Rontholz * Al Hoosmann as Hassan *

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as Sybille *

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 Emil Duske *

Joe Furtner Joe or JOE may refer to: Arts Film and television * ''Joe'' (1970 film), starring Peter Boyle * ''Joe'' (2013 film), starring Nicolas Cage * ''Joe'' (TV series), a British TV series airing from 1966 to 1971 * ''Joe'', a 2002 Canadian animated ...

as Medefint *

Wolfgang Jansen Wolfgang Jansen (1938–1988) was a German actor. Selected filmography * ''The Sinful Border'' (1951) * '' The Chaste Libertine'' (1952) * '' Fight of the Tertia'' (1952) * '' Turtledove General Delivery'' (1952) * ''Hit Parade'' (1953) * '' ...

Hans Hessling Hans Oskar Richard Hessling (March 22, 1903 – February 24, 1995) was a German film and television actor. Selected filmography * ''Joan of Arc'' (1935) * ''Nights in Andalusia'' (1938) * ''The Heart of a Queen'' (1940) * ''Corinna Schmidt'' ...

Emmy Burg Emmy Burg (1903–1982) was a German film and television actress.Rentschler p.326 Selected filmography * '' The Beaver Coat'' (1949) * ''Homesick for You'' (1952) * '' Bon Voyage'' (1954) * ''The Witch'' (1954) * ''Before God and Man'' (1955) * ...

Wolfgang Kühne Wolfgang is a German male given name traditionally popular in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. The name is a combination of the Old High German words ''wolf'', meaning "wolf", and ''gang'', meaning "path", "journey", "travel". Besides the regula ...

* Hans-Otto Krüger *

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References

Bibliography

* Bock, Hans-Michael & Bergfelder, Tim. ''The Concise CineGraph. Encyclopedia of German Cinema''. Berghahn Books, 2009.

External links

* 1954 films 1954 comedy-drama films German comedy-drama films West German films 1950s German-language films Films directed by Thomas Engel Films shot at Tempelhof Studios German black-and-white films 1950s German films {{1950s-Germany-film-stub