The Witch (1954 film)
Appearance
The Witch | |
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German | Die Hexe |
Directed by | Gustav Ucicky |
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Edited by | Carl Otto Bartning |
Music by | Bert Grund |
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Distributed by | Prisma Film |
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Running time | 97 minutes |
Country | West Germany |
Language | German |
The Witch (German: Die Hexe) is a 1954 West German drama film directed by Gustav Ucicky and starring Anita Björk, Karlheinz Böhm and Attila Hörbiger.[1] It was shot at the Tempelhof Studios in Berlin and on location in Vienna, Rome, Venice, Capri and Styria. The film's sets were designed by the art director Emil Hasler and Walter Kutz.
Plot
[edit]A girl grows up foreseeing the future, and is able to predict the Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo.
Cast
[edit]- Anita Björk as Maria Hoidek
- Karlheinz Böhm as Count Ulrich Ziszek-Wald
- Attila Hörbiger as Count Maximilian Schartau
- Viktoria von Ballasko as Countess Christine Schartau
- Charles Regnier as Dr. Harz
- Rudolf Fernau as Baron von Schwarzegg
- Adrienne Gessner as Baroness von Schwarzegg
- Elisabeth Markus as Wife of the Austrian ambassador
- Elisabeth Stemberger as Hilde
- Emmy Burg as Sister
- Leopold Rudolf as Rillak
- Bibiane Zeller
- Helmut Ahner
- Karl Hellmer
- Erik von Loewis
- Marion Degler
- Waltraut Runze
- Olga Limburg
- Joe Furtner
- Helmut Heyne
- Waltraud Neid as Young Maria Hoidek
References
[edit]- ^ Hake, Sabine (2009). Bock, Hans-Michael; Bergfelder, Tim (eds.). The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema. New York: Berghahn Books. p. 48. doi:10.2307/j.ctt1x76dm6. ISBN 978-1571816559. JSTOR j.ctt1x76dm6. S2CID 252868046.
External links
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Categories:
- 1954 films
- West German films
- Films directed by Gustav Ucicky
- 1950s historical drama films
- German historical drama films
- Films set in the 1900s
- Films set in the 1910s
- 1954 drama films
- German black-and-white films
- 1950s German films
- Films shot at Tempelhof Studios
- Films shot in Italy
- Films shot in Austria
- 1950s German-language films
- Films with screenplays by Johannes Mario Simmel
- 1950s German film stubs