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Under the Bridges

Unter den Brücken

1945
Germany
feature film - Romance
99 min. (2721 m.)
Location & Studio shooting / Berlin story line

short description

Love triangle of two boatmen that court the same woman, shot in the last month of world war II.

Cast

Actor/-ess: Hannelore Schroth (Anna Altmann); Carl Raddatz (Hendrik Feldkamp); Gustav Knuth (Willy); Margarete Haagen (Wirtschafterin); Ursula Grabley (Kellnerin Vera); Hildegard Knef (Mädchen in Havelberg); Walter Gross (Mann auf der Brücke); Helene Westphal; Hildegard König; Erich Dunskus (Schlepperkapitän Holl); Klaus Pohl (Museumsdiener); Helmuth Helsig (Cafébesitzer Muhlke)

Direction

Director: Helmut Käutner

Assistant director: Rudolf Jugert; Wolfgang Wehrum

Writing

Screenplay: Walter Ulbrich; Helmut Käutner

Based on: Leo de Laforgue (Manuscript »Unter den Brücken von Paris«)

Camera & Light

Director of photography: Igor Oberberg

Assistant camera / focus puller: Peter Michael Michaelis; Herbert Müller; Hermann Wassermann

Still photographer: Lars Looschen

Decor

Production design: Anton Weber; Hartwig Nielsen (Hilfsarchitekt); Hans Ender; Jupp Büttgen

Property master: Max Linde; Robert Bahr

Stand-by props: Paul Blumenthal; Fredy Isky

Make-up artist: Arnold Jensen; Charlotte Kersten

Wardrobe: Carl Balkie; Max König; Berta Schindler

Cutting & Mixing

Editing: Wolfgang Wehrum

Assistant editor: Eva Kalthoff

Sound: Gustav Bellers

Music

Music: Bernhard Eichhorn

Singer: Carl Raddatz; Gustav Knuth

Lyrics: Hans Leip

Production

Line producer: Walter Ulbrich

Unit production manager: Kurt-Fritz Quassowski

Location manager: Viktor Eisenbach; Kurt Paetz

Production manager: Hans Speer

Companies

Production company: Ufa-Filmkunst GmbH (Herstellungsgruppe Walter Ulbrich)