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The Beaver Coat (1949 film)
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'The Beaver Coat' is a 1949 East German comedy film directed by Erich Engel and starring Fita Benkhoff, Werner Hinz and Kthe Haack.Liehm, Mira & Liehm, Antonn J. 'The Most Important Art: Eastern European Film After 1945'. University of California Press, 1977. p. 85. It is an adaptation of Gerhart Hauptmann's 1893 play 'The Beaver Coat', previously adapted into a 1928 silent film and a 1937 sound film produced during the Nazi era.
It was made at the Johannisthal Studios in Berlin and on the backlot of Babelsberg Studios, both of which fell into the Eastern Zone of occupation in 1945 and were under the control of the state-owned DEFA organisation. Location shooting also took place in Potsdam. The film's sets were designed by the art director Otto Erdmann.
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See also
*The Beaver Coat (1928 film)
*The Beaver Coat (1937 film)
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