''The Dark Star'' (german: Der dunkle Stern) is a 1955 West German
drama film
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directed by
Hermann Kugelstadt
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Selected fil ...
and starring
Elfie Fiegert,
Ilse Steppat
Ilse Paula Steppat (30 November 1917 – 21 December 1969) was a German actress. Her husband was noted actor and director Max Nosseck.
Biography
She began her cinematic career at the age of 15 playing Joan of Arc. Steppat appeared regularly on ...
and
Viktor Staal
Viktor Staal (17 February 1909 – 4 June 1982) was an Austrian film actor.
Selected filmography
* '' Everything for the Company'' (1935)
* '' Eva, the Factory Girl'' (1935)
* '' Das Einmaleins der Liebe'' (1935)
* '' The World's in Love'' (1935 ...
.
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 ...
Heinrich Beisenherz
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Selected filmography
* '' Downfall'' (1923)
* '' The Secret of Brinkenhof'' (1923)
* '' The Love of a Queen'' (1923)
* ''Garragan'' (1924)
* ''Anna and Eliza ...
.
It has never been screened on television in Germany.
Cast
*
Elfie Fiegert as Moni
*
Ilse Steppat
Ilse Paula Steppat (30 November 1917 – 21 December 1969) was a German actress. Her husband was noted actor and director Max Nosseck.
Biography
She began her cinematic career at the age of 15 playing Joan of Arc. Steppat appeared regularly on ...
as Frl. Rieger, die Lehrerin
*
Viktor Staal
Viktor Staal (17 February 1909 – 4 June 1982) was an Austrian film actor.
Selected filmography
* '' Everything for the Company'' (1935)
* '' Eva, the Factory Girl'' (1935)
* '' Das Einmaleins der Liebe'' (1935)
* '' The World's in Love'' (1935 ...
as Casseno
*
Paul Bildt
Paul Hermann Bildt (19 May 1885 – 13 March 1957) was a German film actor. He appeared in more than 180 films between 1910 and 1956. He was born and died in Berlin, Germany.
Selected filmography
* ''Devil in Silk'' (1956)
* ''Ich suche Di ...
as Dr. Schumann, Tierarzt
*
Jürgen Micksch as Manuel
*
Edith Schultze-Westrum
Edith Käthe Elisabeth Schultze-Westrum (30 December 1904 – 20 March 1981) was a German film actress. She appeared in more than 60 films between 1932 and 1979. These included the role of Mrs. Hudson in the 1962 film '' Sherlock Holmes an ...
as Frau Lechner
*
Gert Fröbe
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as Deltorri
*
Siegfried Breuer Jr.
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as Christian
*
Alexander von Richthofen
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as Ulli
*
Ingeborg Schöner
Ingeborg Schöner is a German film and television actress.
Selected filmography
* ''The Silent Angel'' (1954)
* '' The Dark Star'' (1955)
* '' The Captain and His Hero'' (1955)
* '' The First Day of Spring'' (1956)
* ''King in Shadow'' (1957)
...
as Linda
*
Hansi Knoteck
Johanna Knoteck, known as Hansi Knoteck (2 March 1914 – 23 February 2014), was an Austrian film actress.
Selected filmography
* '' Count Woronzeff'' (1934)
* '' Hubertus Castle'' (1934)
* '' The Gypsy Baron'' (1935)
* ''The Saint and Her F ...
as Frau Casseno
*
Maria Marietta as Anita
*
Michael Gebühr
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as Fredy
*
Knut Mahlke
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as Heinz
*
Werner Stock
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* ''Spoiling the Game'' (1932)
* ''Decoy'' (1934 ...
*
Nicolas Koline
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*
Gustl Gstettenbaur
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Born in Bavaria, Gustl Gstettenbaur began his career onstage as a child actor in 1927, at the age of thirteen. He went on to play a variety of ...
as Micky
*
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* Christl Cranz (1914–2004), German alpine skier
* Christl Donnelly Professor of Statistical Epidemiology at Imperial College London
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as Blanka
*
Albert Florath
Albert Peter Adam Florath (7 December 1888, Bielefeld – 11 March 1957, Gaildorf) was a German stage and film actor.
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Born to Joseph Florath, a locksmith, and his wife Matilda, née Burkart, he attended school in Brak ...
as Ressel sen.
*
Wolfgang Büttner
Wolfgang Büttner (1 June 1912 - 18 November 1990) was a German actor. He appeared in more than one hundred films from 1950 to 1998.
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References
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1912 births
1990 deaths
German male film actors
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as Bellani
*
Charly Coleanos
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*
Anne-Marie Hanschke
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*
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*
Herbert Jovy
*
Gusti Kreissl
*
Leo Siedler
*
Petra Unkel
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Life and car ...
*
Fritz Wepper
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References
Bibliography
* Hans-Michael Bock and Tim Bergfelder. ''The Concise Cinegraph: An Encyclopedia of German Cinema''. Berghahn Books, 2009.
External links
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1955 films
1955 drama films
German drama films
West German films
1950s German-language films
Films directed by Hermann Kugelstadt
Circus films
German black-and-white films
1950s German films
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