''White Shadows'' (German: ''Weiße Schatten'') is a 1951 West German
drama film
In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. Drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular super-g ...
directed by
Helmut Käutner and starring
Hilde Krahl,
Hans Söhnker
Hans Söhnker (11 October 1903 – 20 April 1981) was a German film actor. He appeared in more than 100 films between 1933 and 1980. He was born in Kiel, Germany and died in Berlin, Germany.
Selected filmography
* '' The Tsarevich'' (1933) – ...
and
Claude Farell
Claude Farell, real name Monika Burg, also known as Paulette Colar, Catherine Farell, Paulette Kolar and Paulette von Suchan (7 May 1918 – 17 March 2008) was an Austrian actress.
Partial filmography
*''Der Kleinstadtpoet'' (1940) - Zenzi
...
.
[Bock & Bergfelder p.259]
The film's sets were designed by
Fritz Moegle
Fritz Moegle (6 June 1916 – 20 May 1986) was an Austrian art director active in the post-war film industry.Fritsche p.243
Selected filmography
* '' White Shadows'' (1951)
* ''Adventure in Vienna'' (1952)
* ''The Little Czar'' (1954)
* ''I'm Mar ...
. Much of the film was shot
on location in
Tyrol
Tyrol (; historically the Tyrole; de-AT, Tirol ; it, Tirolo) is a historical region in the Alps - in Northern Italy and western Austria. The area was historically the core of the County of Tyrol, part of the Holy Roman Empire, Austrian Emp ...
.
Cast
*
Hilde Krahl as Ruth
*
Hans Söhnker
Hans Söhnker (11 October 1903 – 20 April 1981) was a German film actor. He appeared in more than 100 films between 1933 and 1980. He was born in Kiel, Germany and died in West Berlin, West Germany.
Selected filmography
* '' The Tsarevich'' ...
as Richard
*
Claude Farell as Hella
*
Hugo Gottschlich as Toni
*
Hermann Erhardt
Hermann Erhardt (January 9, 1903 in Landshut - November 30, 1958 in Vienna) was a German actor who played in more than 50 movies, among them ''Heimkehr'' and '' A Devil of a Woman''.
Selected filmography
* '' The Monastery's Hunter'' (1935)
...
as Älterer Grenzer
*
Franz Muxeneder
Franz Muxeneder (19 October 1920 - 3 January 1988) was an Austrian actor. He appeared in more than one hundred films from 1948 to 1987.
Muxeneder is best known in Great Britain for his part in the Yugoslav-German television series ''The White Hor ...
as Junger Grenzer
*
Otto Bolesch
Otto is a masculine German given name and a surname. It originates as an Old High German short form (variants ''Audo'', '' Odo'', ''Udo'') of Germanic names beginning in ''aud-'', an element meaning "wealth, prosperity".
The name is recorded f ...
as Der Fremde
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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1951 films
1951 drama films
German drama films
West German films
1950s German-language films
Films directed by Helmut Käutner
Films set in the Alps
German black-and-white films
1950s German films
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