The Golden Plague (1954 film)

The Golden Plague
The Golden Plague
	German film poster
German	Die goldene Pest
Directed by	John Brahm
Written by	Gerhard T. Buchholz; Kurt Joachim Fischer; Dieter Werner;
Produced by	Gerhard T. Buchholz; Walter Guse
Starring	Ivan Desny; Karlheinz Böhm; Gertrud Kückelmann;
Cinematography	Klaus von Rautenfeld
Edited by	Walter Boos; Wolfgang Flaum
Music by	Hans-Martin Majewski
Production; company	Occident Film
Distributed by	Allianz Filmverleih
Release date	30 December 1954;
Running time	96 minutes
Country	West Germany
Language	German

The Golden Plague (German: Die goldene Pest) is a 1954 West German drama film directed by John Brahm and starring Ivan Desny, Karlheinz Böhm, and Gertrud Kückelmann.^[1] The film's sets were designed by the art director Alfred Bütow. Location shooting took place in Dotzheim and Kaiserslautern.

Plot

Ivan Desny plays a disillusioned exile returning to Germany from the United States. The film centers around drug trafficking and the black market.^[1]^[2]

Cast

Ivan Desny as Sergeant Hartwig
Karlheinz Böhm as Karl Hellmer
Gertrud Kückelmann as Franziska Hellmer
Wilfried Seyferth as Wenzeslaw Kolowrat
Elise Aulinger as Johanna Neureither
Heinz Hilpert as Tonder
Ilse Fürstenberg as Mrs. Försterling
Erich Ponto as Dr. Sierich
Alexander Golling as Hamann
Ethel Reschke as Lola
Joachim Rake as Captain Tyler

Reception

Award nominations

Karlheinz Böhm was nominated for the 1955 Bambi Award best German actor
Erich Ponto was nominated for the 1955 German Film Awards as best supporting actor

References

^ ^a ^b Hake, Sabine (2009). Bock, Hans-Michael; Bergfelder, Tim (eds.). The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema. Berghahn Books. p. 306. doi:10.2307/j.ctt1x76dm6. ISBN 978-1571816559. JSTOR j.ctt1x76dm6. S2CID 252868046.
^ Kapczynski, Jennifer M.; Richardson, Michael D., eds. (2014) [2012]. A New History of German Cinema. Rochester, NY: Camden House. ISBN 978-1-57113-595-7.

External links

The Golden Plague at IMDb

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[BB-1] Hake, Sabine (2009). Bock, Hans-Michael; Bergfelder, Tim (eds.). The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema. Berghahn Books. p. 306. doi:10.2307/j.ctt1x76dm6. ISBN 978-1571816559. JSTOR j.ctt1x76dm6. S2CID 252868046.

[2] Kapczynski, Jennifer M.; Richardson, Michael D., eds. (2014) [2012]. A New History of German Cinema. Rochester, NY: Camden House. ISBN 978-1-57113-595-7.

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