The Last Night (1949 film)

1949 film

Friedrich Hartau (play)
Otto-Heinz Jahn
Harald G. Petersson

Produced by

Walter Koppel
Gyula Trebitsch

Starring

Sybille Schmitz
Karl John
Margarete Haagen

CinematographyWilly WintersteinEdited byAlice LudwigMusic byWolfgang Zeller

Production
company

Real Film

Distributed byHerzog-Filmverleih

Release date

11 February 1949 (1949-02-11)

Running time

93 minutesCountryGermanyLanguageGerman

The Last Night (German: Die letzte Nacht) is a 1949 German drama film directed by Eugen York and starring Sybille Schmitz, Karl John, Margarete Haagen.^[1] It was made by the Hamburg-based company Real Film at the Wandsbek Studios. The film's sets were designed by Herbert Kirchhoff. The film is set in German-occupied France in 1944 where a female resistance operative and a German army officer fall in love. It was not a box office success on its release.

Cast

Sybille Schmitz as Renée Meurier
Karl John as Harald Buchner, Oberleutnant
Margarete Haagen as Lisa Plessow
Catja Görna as Marina Eilers, Sängerin
Carl-Heinz Schroth as André Meurier, Renées Bruder
Peter Mosbacher as Major Brink, I.A.
Hermann Schomberg as General Riedel, Divisionsgeneral
Joseph Offenbach as Hauptmann Klapproth, NSFO-Offizier
Josef Sieber as Hauptfeldwebel Mahnke
Hans Richter as Willem, Ordonnanz
Franz Schafheitlin as Kriegsgerichtsrat Börner
Peter Schütte as Hauptmann Venor, Sonderführer und Dolmetscher
Josef Dahmen as Rostard, Kellner
Ludwig Röger as Maurice
Horst von Otto as Stabsintendant Wegler
Willi Schweisguth as Violle, Gärtner im Schloß Ampière
Erwin Geschonneck as Oskar, Fahrer
Wolgang Heßler as Major Olbrecht, Nachrichtenoffizier
Hans Harlow as Dr. Dörfel, Oberfeldarzt
Ruth Peter
Margar Massberg
Sylvia Fitzen
Maria Schell
Ingrid Preusser
Bruno Klockmann
Ekkehard von Eckhardt
Adalbert Kriwat

References

^ Bock & Bergfelder p. 547

Bibliography

Bock, Hans-Michael; Bergfelder, Tim, eds. (2009). The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema. New York: Berghahn Books. ISBN 978-1-57181-655-9.