''The Missing Miniature'' (german: Die verschwundene Miniatur) is a 1954 West German
comedy
Comedy is a genre of fiction that consists of discourses or works intended to be humorous or amusing by inducing laughter, especially in theatre, film, stand-up comedy, television, radio, books, or any other entertainment medium. The term o ...
crime film directed by
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 Ruttersh ...
and starring
Paola Loew,
Ralph Lothar
Ralph Lothar (1910–1981) was a German film actor and director.Goble p.482
Selected filmography
* ''I Entrust My Wife to You'' (1943)
* ''And the Heavens Above Us'' (1947)
* '' Chemistry and Love'' (1948)
* ''Girls Behind Bars'' (1949)
* '' Nig ...
and
Paul Westermeier
Paul Westermeier (9 July 1892 – 17 October 1972) was a German film actor.
Selected filmography
* '' Wedding in the Eccentric Club'' (1917)
* '' Agnes Arnau and Her Three Suitors'' (1918)
* '' About the Son'' (1921)
* '' Memoirs of a Film Act ...
.
[Bock & Bergfelder p.236] It is based on the 1935 story of the same name by
Erich Kästner. It was shot at the
Carlton Studios in
Munich
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and
on location in
Copenhagen
Copenhagen ( or .; da, København ) is the capital and most populous city of Denmark, with a proper population of around 815.000 in the last quarter of 2022; and some 1.370,000 in the urban area; and the wider Copenhagen metropolitan ar ...
,
Lübeck
Lübeck (; Low German also ), officially the Hanseatic City of Lübeck (german: Hansestadt Lübeck), is a city in Northern Germany. With around 217,000 inhabitants, Lübeck is the second-largest city on the German Baltic coast and in the state ...
and
Hanover
Hanover (; german: Hannover ; nds, Hannober) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Lower Saxony. Its 535,932 (2021) inhabitants make it the 13th-largest city in Germany as well as the fourth-largest city in Northern Germany ...
. The film's sets were designed by the
art directors
Max Mellin
Max Mellin (1904–1977) was a German art director.Jacobsen & Prinzler p.275
Selected filmography
* ''Happy Days in Aranjuez'' (1933)
* ''The Girlfriend of a Big Man'' (1934)
* '' Playing with Fire'' (1934)
* '' Marriage Strike'' (1935)
* ''Fresh ...
and
Wolf Englert
Wolf Englert (1924–1997) was a German painter and art director who designed the sets of a number of German films and television series.Herzogenrath p.308
Selected filmography
* '' Hubertus Castle'' (1954)
* '' The Sinful Village'' (1954)
* '' ...
.
Synopsis
While on holiday in
Copenhagen
Copenhagen ( or .; da, København ) is the capital and most populous city of Denmark, with a proper population of around 815.000 in the last quarter of 2022; and some 1.370,000 in the urban area; and the wider Copenhagen metropolitan ar ...
, a
butcher
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meets a young woman in a
café
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and agrees to transport a
miniature painting Miniature painting may refer to:
* Miniature (illuminated manuscript), a small illustration used to decorate an illuminated manuscript
* Persian miniature, a small painting on paper in the Persian tradition, for a book or album
* Ottoman miniature, ...
back to Germany for her. This soon leads to complications.
Cast
References
Bibliography
* Bock, Hans-Michael & Bergfelder, Tim. ''The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema''. Berghahn Books, 2009.
External links
*
1954 films
1950s crime comedy films
German crime comedy films
West German films
1950s German-language films
Films directed by Carl-Heinz Schroth
Films set in Copenhagen
Films based on German novels
Films based on works by Erich Kästner
1954 comedy films
German black-and-white films
1950s German films
Films shot in Copenhagen
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