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Under the Thousand Lanterns

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Under the Thousand Lanterns
Film poster
Directed byErich Engel
Written by
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyEkkehard Kyrath
Edited byKlaus Dudenhöfer
Music byMichael Jary
Production
company
Distributed byAllianz Filmverleih
Release date
  • 10 April 1952 (1952-04-10)
Running time
94 minutes
Countries
  • France
  • West Germany
LanguageGerman

Under the Thousand Lanterns (German: Unter den tausend Laternen) is a 1952 French-West German crime film directed by Erich Engel and starring Michel Auclair, Gisela Trowe, and Hanna Rucker.[1] It was entered into the 1952 Cannes Film Festival.[2] It was made by Real Film at the Wandsbek Studios in Hamburg and on location in the city. The film's sets were designed by Albrecht Becker and Herbert Kirchhoff.

Synopsis

Singer Elisa visits the house of the composer of the new revue she is to star in, only to find his dead body. Suspicions fall on several of the murdered man's colleagues including French musician Michel Dumas, whose compositions the deceased had been passing off his as his own, as well as on Elisa herself.

Cast

References

  1. ^ Parish & Canham, p. 103.
  2. ^ "Festival de Cannes: Unter den tausend Laternen". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 18 January 2009.

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