At the Well in Front of the Gate

"Am Brunnen vor dem Tore" redirects here. For the Lied with these words by Franz Schubert, see Der Lindenbaum.

At the Well in Front of the Gate (German: Am Brunnen vor dem Tore) is a 1952 West German romance film directed by Hans Wolff and starring Sonja Ziemann, Hans Stüwe and Paul Klinger. It was shot in Agfacolor at the Tempelhof Studios in West Berlin and on location around Dinkelsbühl in Bavaria. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Willi A. Herrmann, Heinrich Weidemann and Peter Schlewski.

At the Well in Front of the Gate
Directed by	Hans Wolff
Written by	Bobby E. Lüthge Rolf Dortenwald
Produced by	Kurt Ulrich
Starring	Sonja Ziemann Hans Stüwe Paul Klinger
Cinematography	Kurt Schulz
Edited by	Margarete Steinborn
Music by	Willy Schmidt-Gentner
Production company	Berolina Film
Distributed by	Berolina Film
Release date	18 December 1952 (1952-12-18)
Running time	92 minutes
Country	West Germany
Language	German
Box office	3.5 million DM

Synopsis

Inge Bachner has three male suitors interested in her, including the owner of a petrol station and a former RAF pilot.

Cast

• Sonja Ziemann as Inge Bachner
• Hans Stüwe as Georg Straaten
• Paul Klinger as Kurt Kramer
• Willy Fritsch as Robert's father
• Heli Finkenzeller as Mary Murphy
• Fritz Wagner as Robert Murphy
• Fritz Kösling as Erich Bachner
• Else Reval as Anna, Straaten's cook
• Marina Ried as Lilo, Inge's friend
• Hans Richter as Hans, vagrant
• Kurt Reimann as Nachtigall, vagrant
• Ludwig Schmitz as Tuennes, vagrant
• Jakob Tiedtke as civil registration official
• Karl Finkenzeller as Jim, chauffeur
• Hans Wolff as police commissioner
• Heinz Jungmann as policeman
• Alexa von Porembsky as Gerti, waitress

Bibliography

• Lutz Peter Koepnick. The Cosmopolitan Screen: German Cinema and the Global Imaginary, 1945 to the Present. University of Michigan Press, 2007.

External links

• At the Well in Front of the Gate at IMDb
• Am Brunnen vor dem , a different 1922 film of the same name