A Shot at Dawn (German: Schuß im Morgengrauen) is a 1932 German crime film directed by Alfred Zeisler and starring Ery Bos, Genia Nikolaieva and Karl Ludwig Diehl. It was based on the play The Woman and the Emerald by Harry Jenkins and recounts a jewel theft.[1] It was shot at the Babelsberg Studios in Potsdam with sets designed by the art directors Willi Herrmann and Herbert O. Phillips. A separate French-language version Coup de feu à l'aube was also produced.

A Shot at Dawn
Directed byAlfred Zeisler
Written byRudolph Cartier
Egon Eis
Otto Eis
Based onThe Woman and the Emerald by Harry Jenkins
Produced byErich Pommer
StarringEry Bos
Genia Nikolaieva
Karl Ludwig Diehl
Theodor Loos
CinematographyWerner Bohne
Konstantin Irmen-Tschet
Edited byErno Hajos
Music byBronislau Kaper
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Distributed byUFA
Release date
  • 18 June 1932 (1932-06-18)
Running time
73 minutes
CountryGermany
LanguageGerman

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References

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  1. ^ Youngkin p.72-73

Bibliography

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  • Bock, Hans-Michael & Bergfelder, Tim. The Concise CineGraph. Encyclopedia of German Cinema. Berghahn Books, 2009.
  • Youngkin, Stephen. The Lost One: A Life of Peter Lorre. University Press of Kentucky, 2005.
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