Portrait of an Unknown Woman (film)

1954 film

Hans Jacoby
Helmut Käutner

Produced by

Herbert Junghans
Utz Utermann

Starring

Ruth Leuwerik
O. W. Fischer
Irene von Meyendorff

CinematographyWerner KrienEdited byAnneliese SchönnenbeckMusic byFranz Grothe

Production
company

Sirius-Film

Distributed bySchorcht Filmverleih

Release date

27 August 1954 (1954-08-27)

Running time

100 minutesCountryWest GermanyLanguageGerman

Portrait of an Unknown Woman (German: Bildnis einer Unbekannten) is a 1954 West German comedy film directed by Helmut Käutner and starring Ruth Leuwerik, O. W. Fischer and Irene von Meyendorff.^[1]^[2]^[3] It was shot at the Bavaria Studios in Munich and on location in Madrid and Paris. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Ludwig Reiber and Max Seefelder.

Synopsis

A potential scandal breaks out when an artist adds the head of the wife of a diplomat to a nude painting he is working on.

Cast

Ruth Leuwerik as Nicole
O. W. Fischer as Jan Maria Keller
Erich Schellow as Walter
Irene von Meyendorff as Ambassador's Wife
Albrecht Schoenhals as Ambassador
Paul Hoffmann as Philip Hernandez
Bum Krüger as Bar Owner
Ulrich Beiger as Auctioneer
Nicolas Koline as Sascha
Ingrid van Bergen as Jacqueline, a model

References

^ "Bildnis einer Unbekannten" (in German). Zweitausendeins [de]. Retrieved 27 November 2017.
^ Popa, Dorin (1989). O.W. Fischer: seine Filme, sein Leben. Heyne. p. 160. ISBN 978-3-453-00124-4.
^ Bock & Bergfelder 2009, p. 282.

Bibliography

Bock, Hans-Michael; Bergfelder, Tim, eds. (2009). The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema. New York: Berghahn Books. ISBN 978-1-57181-655-9.