''Love Letters from Engadin'' or ''Love Letters from the Engadine'' (german: Liebesbriefe aus dem Engadin) is a 1938 German
romantic comedy
Romantic comedy (also known as romcom or rom-com) is a subgenre of comedy and slice of life fiction, focusing on lighthearted, humorous plot lines centered on romantic ideas, such as how true love is able to surmount most obstacles. In a typica ...
film directed by
Luis Trenker
Luis Trenker (born Alois Franz Trenker, 4 October 1892 – 13 April 1990) was a South Tyrolean film producer, director, writer, actor, architect, Mountaineering, alpinist, and Bobsleigh, bobsledder.
Biography Early life
Alois Franz Trenker was b ...
and
Werner Klingler
Karl Adolf Kurt Werner Klingler (23 October 1903 – 23 June 1972) was a German film director and actor. He directed 29 films between 1936 and 1968. He was born in Stuttgart and died in Berlin, Germany.
Early life
Klingler acquired his firs ...
and starring Trenker,
Carla Rust
Carla Rust (15 September 1908 – 27 December 1977) was a German film actress. She appeared as a leading lady in a number of films during the Nazi era. She was married to the actor Sepp Rist.
Selected filmography
* ''Don't Lose Heart, Suzan ...
and
Erika von Thellmann
Erika von Thellmann (1902–1988) was an Austrian actress who appeared in more than a hundred films and television series during her career.Fritsche p.254
Selected filmography
* ''The Stone Rider'' (1923)
* '' Marriage Strike'' (1935)
*''The Gree ...
. It contains elements of the
mountain film
A mountain film is a film genre that focuses on mountaineering and especially the battle of human against nature. In addition to mere adventure, the protagonists who return from the mountain come back changed, usually gaining wisdom and enlighten ...
genre for which Trenker was best known. It is set in
London
London is the capital and largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary down to the North Sea, and has been a majo ...
and in the
Engadin
The Engadin or Engadine ( rm, ;This is the name in the two Romansh idioms that are spoken in the Engadin, Vallader and Puter, as well as in Sursilvan and Rumantsch Grischun. In Surmiran, the name is ''Nagiadegna'', and in Sutsilvan, it is ' ...
valley in the
Swiss Alps
The Alpine region of Switzerland, conventionally referred to as the Swiss Alps (german: Schweizer Alpen, french: Alpes suisses, it, Alpi svizzere, rm, Alps svizras), represents a major natural feature of the country and is, along with the Swiss ...
, where much of the
location shooting
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The filming location may be the same in which the story is set (for exam ...
took place. Interiors were shot at the
Sievering
Sievering is a suburb of Vienna and part of Döbling, the 19th district of Vienna. Sievering was created in 1892 out of the two erstwhile independent suburbs Untersievering and Obersievering. These still exist as Katastralgemeinden.
For many y ...
and
Schönbrunn Studios
The Schönbrunn Studios were film studios located in the Austrian capital Vienna in the grounds of the Schönbrunn Palace. It took over the site of the old palm house, which had been replaced by the newer Palmenhaus Schönbrunn in the 1880s.
Esta ...
in
Vienna
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, which had recently been
annexed by Germany.
[Klaus p.123] 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 ...
Fritz Maurischat
Fritz Maurischat (April 27, 1893 in Berlin – December 11, 1986) was a German production designer. He made his film debut in 1924. Over the next 38 years, he worked on over 70 films, all of them in his native Germany.
He earned an Oscar nominatio ...
. It was distributed by
Terra Film
Terra Film was a Berlin-based film production company. Founded in 1919, it became one of Germany's largest film production companies in the 1930s under the Nazi regime.
Corporate history
The company was founded at end of 1919, initially as a lim ...
.
Synopsis
The manager of a ski resort decides to raise money by writing love letters on behalf of his popular ski instructor to various former pupils asking them to visit the resort again and donate to new facilities. This causes complications when one of his former students in
London
London is the capital and largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary down to the North Sea, and has been a majo ...
breaks off her engagement to an aristocrat, having discovered he is marrying her for her fortune, and travels out to Switzerland accompanied by a female friend.
Main cast
*
Luis Trenker
Luis Trenker (born Alois Franz Trenker, 4 October 1892 – 13 April 1990) was a South Tyrolean film producer, director, writer, actor, architect, Mountaineering, alpinist, and Bobsleigh, bobsledder.
Biography Early life
Alois Franz Trenker was b ...
as Toni Anewanter
*
Carla Rust
Carla Rust (15 September 1908 – 27 December 1977) was a German film actress. She appeared as a leading lady in a number of films during the Nazi era. She was married to the actor Sepp Rist.
Selected filmography
* ''Don't Lose Heart, Suzan ...
as Dorothy Baxter
*
Erika von Thellmann
Erika von Thellmann (1902–1988) was an Austrian actress who appeared in more than a hundred films and television series during her career.Fritsche p.254
Selected filmography
* ''The Stone Rider'' (1923)
* '' Marriage Strike'' (1935)
*''The Gree ...
as Anni Anewanter, Tonis Schwester
*
Charlott Daudert
Charlott Daudert (27 December 1913 – 19 January 1961) was a German film actress.Jacobsen & Prinzler p.275
Filmography
* '' The Csardas Princess'' (1934)
* ''Frasquita'' (1934)
* '' Da stimmt was nicht'' (1934)
* '' Old Comrades'' (1934)
* '' ...
as Constance Farrington
*
Paul Heidemann
Paul may refer to:
*Paul (given name), a given name (includes a list of people with that name)
*Paul (surname), a list of people
People
Christianity
* Paul the Apostle (AD c.5–c.64/65), also known as Saul of Tarsus or Saint Paul, early Chri ...
as Lord Horace Baxter, Dorothys Vater
*
Robert Dorsay
Robert Dorsay (16 August 1904 – 29 October 1943) was a German actor, dancer, and singer who was executed in October 1943 for defeatism and defamation of National Socialism.
Life
The only son of the opera singer Paul Stampa and the soprano D ...
as Jack, Kammerdienter
*
Otto Wernicke
Otto Karl Robert Wernicke (30 September 1893, Osterode am Harz – 7 November 1965) was a German actor. He is best known for his role as police inspector Karl Lohmann in the two Fritz Lang films '' M'' and ''The Testament of Dr. Mabuse''.
Marrie ...
as Thomas Viertinger, Hotelier
*
Umberto Sacripante
Umberto Sacripante (2 October 1904 – 14 January 1975) was an Italian film and stage actor.
Life and career
Born Umberto Sacripanti in Rome, Sacripante debuted on stage in 1921, and in 1926 he became first actor in the theatrical company Teat ...
as Dr. Sacripanti
*
Anton Pointner
Anton Pointner (8 December 1894 in Salzburg – 8 September 1949 in Hintersee) was an Austrian stage and film actor. Pointner's career began on the stages of Austria and performed in both silent and sound films in his native Austria, as well ...
as Amtsrichter Rung
References
Bibliography
*
* Klaus, Ulrich J. ''Deutsche Tonfilme: Jahrgang 1938''. Klaus-Archiv, 1988.
External links
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1938 films
German romantic comedy films
1938 romantic comedy films
1930s German-language films
Films directed by Luis Trenker
Films directed by Werner Klingler
Films of Nazi Germany
Terra Film films
Films set in London
Films set in the Alps
Skiing films
German black-and-white films
1930s German films
Films shot at Schönbrunn Studios
Films shot at Sievering Studios
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