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Poison in the Zoo
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Wikipedia article
'Poison in the Zoo' is a 1952 West German thriller film directed by Hans Mller and Wolfgang Staudte and starring Irene von Meyendorff, Carl Raddatz and Petra Peters.
Production
During production in 1951, the director Wolfgang Staudte was removed and replaced when the West German authorities refused to consider it eligible for state subsidies unless Staudte declare that he would no longer work for the DEFA studios of the Communist East German state. Staudte, who had made several major productions for DEFA, refused and was replaced by Mller.Schissler p. 297
It was shot partly on location at the Tierpark Hagenbeck in Hamburg.
The film's sets were designed by Albrecht Becker and Herbert Kirchhoff.
Synopsis
After a series of mysterious deaths of animals at a zoo the police are called in to investigate.
Cast
* Irene von Meyendorff as Vera Pauly
* Carl Raddatz as Dr. Martin Rettberg
* Petra Peters as Jutta Flamm
* Ernst Schrder as Oskar Beck
* Hermann Speelmans as Kriminalrat Walter Glasbrenner
* Nicolas Koline as Wrter Mathias
* Kurt Meister as Oberwrter Kruschke
* Otto Reimer as Wrter Robby
* Helmut Peine as Kriminalkommissar Werner
* Tilla Hohmann as Wirtschafterin Karola
* Hella Attenberger as Gaby Rettberg
* Alwin Pauli as Oberwrter Berger
* Bruno Klockmann as Polizeichef Dr. Wltje
References
Bibliography
* Hans-Michael Bock and Tim Bergfelder. 'The Concise Cinegraph: An Encyclopedia of German Cinema'. Berghahn Books, 2009.
* Hanna Schissler. 'The Miracle Years: A Cultural History of West Germany, 19491968'. Princeton University Press, 2001.
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