''Taiga'' is a 1958 West German
drama film directed by
Wolfgang Liebeneiner and starring
Ruth Leuwerik,
Hannes Messemer
Hannes Messemer (17 May 1924 – 2 November 1991) was a German actor from Dillingen an der Donau, Bavaria.
Biography
World War II
Messemer served on the Eastern Front of World War II and was eventually captured by Soviet soldiers. He ...
and
Günter Pfitzmann.
[Frey p. 44]
It was shot at the
Bavaria Studios in
Munich. The film's sets were designed by the
art director
Art director is the title for a variety of similar job functions in theater, advertising, marketing, publishing, fashion, film industry, film and television, the Internet, and video games.
It is the charge of a sole art director to supervise and ...
s
Robert Herlth and
Gottfried Will
Gottfried is a masculine German given name.
It is derived from the Old High German name , recorded since the 7th century.
The name is composed of the elements (conflated from the etyma for 'God' and 'good', and possibly further conflated with ) a ...
. The title refers to the
taiga that covers much of Siberia.
Synopsis
After the
Second World War a female Doctor tends to the German prisoners held in a camp in
Siberia.
Cast
References
Bibliography
* Frey, Mattias. ''Postwall German Cinema: History, Film History and Cinephilia''. Berghahn Books, 2013.
External links
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1958 films
West German films
German drama films
1958 drama films
1950s German-language films
Films directed by Wolfgang Liebeneiner
Eastern Front of World War II films
World War II prisoner of war films
Bavaria Film films
Films shot at Bavaria Studios
1950s German films
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