Poison in the Zoo
Directed by
Written byEdgar Kahn
Produced byWerner Ludwig
Starring
CinematographyEkkehard Kyrath
Edited byAnneliese Schönnenbeck
Music byMarc Hendriks
Production
company
Camera-Filmproduktion
Distributed byNational-Film
Release date
24 January 1952
Running time
84 minutes
CountryWest Germany
LanguageGerman

Poison in the Zoo (German: Gift im Zoo) is a 1952 West German thriller film directed by Hans Müller 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 Müller.[1]

It was shot at the Wandsbek Studios in Hamburg and on location in the city's Tierpark Hagenbeck. 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

References

  1. ↑ Schissler p. 297

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, 1949–1968. Princeton University Press, 2001.
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