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RÄTSEL DER NACHT (1945)

Johannes Meyer Writers: Edgar Kahn, Ludwig Metzger (novel), 1 more credit » Stars: Lotte Koch, Kirsten Heiberg, Richard Häussler
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Kirsten Heiberg in ihrerm letzten Film während des Krieges. Der Film Rätsel der Nacht wurde 1944/45 in den Niederlanden und in den bayerischen Alpen gedreht. Bei Kriegsende war er zur Musiksynchronistaion im Studio. Er wurde 1950 von der Defa fertiggestellt und wohl nur in Ost-Berlin gezeigt. In Deutschland gillt er deshalb in vielen Werken als unvollendet. Die Aufführung des Filmes wäre also eine echte Premiere.

Kirsten Heiberg in her last film made during the War. Rätsel der Nacht was made in 1944/45 and filmed in the Netherlands and the Bavarian Alps. It concerns a murder in an observatory. A woman (Kirsten Heiberg) discovers, that her travel acquaintance and flirt (Richard Häussler) is a new employee and falls in love for another woman (Lotte Koch) in the observatory. Music is by Heiberg husband Fraz Grothe.  The film was never shown in West Germany.  It was finished in 1950 by DEFA and probably only shown in East Berlin.

 

THERE IS A NEWSREEL ALONG WITH THE FILM, JUST AS GERMAN AUDIENCES MIGHT HAVE SEEN WHEN THE MOVIE WAS FIRST SHOWN (except this newsreel may not be contemporary to when the film was released).

DVD-R IS IN GERMAN WITH NO SUBTITLES (except for the Newsreel).

QUALITY (of feature film only): 

 

·        Sharpness of picture?  - unsharp, washed out and snowy

·        Other notable issues?  - tinny sound

 

 

LENGTH OF FEATURE FILM:  85 mins

LENGTH OF NEWSREEL:  12 mins

 

 

 

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