Madonna in Chains
1949 film
| Madonna in Chains | |
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 German film poster | |
| German | Madonna in Ketten |
| Directed by | Gerhard Lamprecht |
| Written by | H. C. Pelman Theo Rausch |
| Produced by | Franz Vogel |
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| Cinematography | Bruno Timm |
| Edited by | Eva Kalthoff |
| Music by | Hans Carste |
Production company | Euphono-Film |
| Distributed by | Panorama-Film |
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Running time | 85 minutes |
| Country | West Germany |
| Language | German |
Madonna in Chains (German: Madonna in Ketten) is a 1949 West German drama film directed by Gerhard Lamprecht and starring Lotte Koch, Karin Hardt and Elisabeth Flickenschildt.[1]
It was shot in studios in Düsseldorf with location shooting took place in the surrounding region. The film's sets were designed by the art director Alfred Bütow.
Plot
A woman is wrongly accused of a crime that was really committed by her husband and is sent to jail. While in prison she gives birth and the child is put up for adoption. Once fresh evidence frees her from jail, the woman goes searching for her daughter.
Cast
- Lotte Koch as Maria Randolf
- Karin Hardt as Gerda Wienholt
- Elisabeth Flickenschildt as Gabriele Custodis
- Elise Aulinger as Nickel, mother
- Dagmar Jansen as Christa, child
- Richard Häussler as Professor Wienholt
- Heinz Schorlemmer as Dr. Peter Gellert
- Werner Hessenland as Randolf, general director
- Rudolf Therkatz as Director Weigant
- Willy Millowitsch as Prof. Kleinschmidt
- Paul Heidemann as Dr. Klaussen
- Elisabeth Botz
- Frigga Braut as Supervisor Hansen
- Emmy Graetz as Gertrud, gatekeeper
- Hiltraud Helling
- Renate Hofrichter
- Alfons Godard
- Carl Möller
- Wilhelm Semmelroth
- Hermann Weisse as Bertrich, warden
References
- ^ Bock, Hans-Michael; Bergfelder, Tim, eds. (2009). The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema. New York, NY: Berghahn Books. p. 275. ISBN 1571816550. JSTOR j.ctt1x76dm6.
External links
- Madonna in Chains at IMDb
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Films directed by Gerhard Lamprecht
- The Graveyard of the Living (1921)
- The Buddenbrooks (1923)
- The House Without Laughter (1923)
- And Yet Luck Came (1923)
- The Other Woman (1924)
- The Hanseatics (1925)
- Slums of Berlin (1925)
- Children of No Importance (1926)
- People to Each Other (1926)
- Sister Veronika (1927)
- The Catwalk (1927)
- Under the Lantern (1928)
- The Old Fritz (1928)
- The Man with the Frog (1929)
- Different Morals (1931)
- Between Night and Dawn (1931)
- Emil and the Detectives (1931)
- The Black Hussar (1932)
- Spies at Work (1933)
- What Men Know (1933)
- Just Once a Great Lady (1934)
- A Day Will Come (1934)
- Princess Turandot (1934)
- Turandot, Princess of China (1935)
- The Higher Command (1935)
- One Too Many on Board (1935)
- A Strange Guest (1936)
- Madame Bovary (1937)
- The Yellow Flag (1937)
- The Gambler (1938)
- Woman in the River (1939)
- The Girl at the Reception (1940)
- Clarissa (1941)
- Diesel (1942)
- The Noltenius Brothers (1945)
- Somewhere in Berlin (1946)
- Quartet of Five (1949)
- Madonna in Chains (1949)
- The Angel with the Flaming Sword (1954)
- Sergeant Borck (1955)
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