The Deadly Dreams

1951 film

Werner Fischer
Georg Mohr

StarringRudolf Forster
Will Quadflieg
Cornell BorchersCinematographyFritz Arno WagnerEdited byRosemarie WeinertMusic byHans-Otto Borgmann

Production
company

Pontus Film

Distributed byNational Film

Release date

10 January 1951 (1951-01-10)

Running time

81 minutesCountryWest GermanyLanguageGerman

The Deadly Dreams (German: Die tödlichen Träume) is a 1951 West German fantasy drama film directed by Paul Martin and starring Rudolf Forster, Will Quadflieg and Cornell Borchers. The film is based on several stories by the romantic era writer E. T. A. Hoffmann.^[1] ^[2] It was shot at the Wiesbaden Studios and on location around Bamberg in Bavaria. It was entered into the 1951 Cannes Film Festival.^[3]

Cast

Rudolf Forster as Opitz / E.T.A. Hoffmann / Gefreiter
Will Quadflieg as Winter / Barravas / Florestan
Cornell Borchers as Angelika / Inez / Lisette / Maria
Walter Franck as Alexis / Don d'Alvarez / Cardillac
Harald Paulsen as Magier / Rodriguez / Olivier

References

^ Ringel, Stefan (1995). "E. T. A. Hoffmanns Werke im Film". E. T. A. Hoffmann Jahrbuch (in German). 41 (3): 88.
^ Karl & Skopal p.122
^ "Festival de Cannes: Die tödlichen Träume". festival-cannes.com. Archived from the original on 22 January 2013. Retrieved 17 January 2009.

Bibliography

Karl, Lars & Skopal, Pavel. Cinema in Service of the State: Perspectives on Film Culture in the GDR and Czechoslovakia, 1945–1960. Berghahn Books, 2015.