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1949 film

Anonymous Letters
Directed by Arthur Maria Rabenalt
Written by Annemarie Artinger (novel)Ernst Hasselbach
Produced by Frank Clifford
Starring Käthe HaackTilly LauensteinO.E. Hasse
Cinematography Otto Baecker
Edited by Walter Wischniewsky
Music by Theo Mackeben
Productioncompany Cordial-Film
Distributed by Europa-Filmverleih
Release date 29 March 1949 (1949-03-29)
Running time 95 minutes
Country Germany
Language German

Anonymous Letters (German: Anonyme Briefe) is a 1949 German drama film directed by Arthur Maria Rabenalt, and starring Käthe Haack, Tilly Lauenstein, and O.E. Hasse.[1] It was shot at the Tempelhof Studios in West Berlin and on location in the city at the time of the Berlin Blockade. The film's sets were designed by the art director Willi Herrmann.

In Occupied Berlin the students at a drama school begin receiving anonymous letters threatening to reveal secrets about them. Considerable mistrusts grows amongst the students, culminating in one of them attempting suicide. Eventually the head of the school calls in the police to investigate.

  1. ^ Bock & Bergfelder p. 304