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Hildegard Knef

Hildegard Knef

German actress, singer and writer (1925-2002)
December 28, 1925 (February 1, 2002)
Fr. 1989. Mores drama by Claude Faraldo with Micheline Presle, Inge Meysel, Hildegard Knef. An old pianist whose career was once ruined by an accident wants to take revenge on her century-old sister, whom she holds responsible for her misfortune.
Runtime: 91 min.

Future of Emily

V.O.: Flügel und Fesseln
All. 1984. Drama by Helma Sanders-Brahms with Brigitte Fossey, Hildegard Knef, Ivan Desny. An actress spends a few hours with her parents, to whom she has entrusted her daughter during the shooting of a film.
Runtime: 106 min.
G.-B. 1968. Adventures by Michael Carreras with Eric Porter, Hildegard Knef, Tony Beckley. A cargo ship drifting in the Sargasso Sea is attacked by strange assailants.
Runtime: 89 min.

Mark of the Tortoise

V.O.: Wartezimmer zum Jenseits
All. 1964. Crime drama by Alfred Vohrer with Hildegard Knef, Goetz George, Richard Muench. A paralyzed marquis runs a blackmail organization.
Runtime: 90 min.
G.-B. 1964. Crime drama by Robert Lynn with Steve Cochran, Hildegard Knef, Vivi Bach. An airplane pilot is involved in a shady business in Africa.
Runtime: 97 min.

The Three Penny Opera

V.O.: Die Dreigroschenoper
All. 1964. Musical by Wolfgang Staudte with Curd Jürgens, June Ritchie, Hildegard Knef. The king of the underworld secretly marries the daughter of the king of the beggars.
Runtime: 83 min.

Bluebeard

V.O.: Landru
Fr. 1963. Comedy by Claude Chabrol with Charles Denner, Stéphane Audran, Danielle Darrieux. A man murders several women after taking their belongings.
Runtime: 102 min.
Fr. 1963. Crime drama by Claude-Jean Bonnardot with Laurent Terzieff, Hildegard Knef, Philippe Noiret. A young criminal accepts to carry a suitcase containing a secret device.
Runtime: 85 min.
Fr. 1963. Spy drama by Pierre Gaspard-Huit with Gérard Barray, Hildegard Knef, Elisa Montes. In Gibraltar, an Intelligence Service officer pretends to be a traitor in order to infiltrate a spy ring based in Tangier.
Runtime: 96 min.

And So to Bed

V.O.: Die grosse liebespiel
Runtime: 115 min.

Catherine of Russia

V.O.: Caterina di Russia
It. 1962. History by Umberto Lenzi with Hildegard Knef, Sergio Fantoni, Raoul Grassili. Married to a tyrannical husband, Catherine leads a revolt and ascends to the throne.
Runtime: 90 min.

Les Conquérants de la vallée sauvage

V.O.: La Strada dei Giganti
It. 1960. Adventures by Guido Malatesta with Don Megowan, Chelo Alonso, Hildegard Knef. In 1860, an American engineer, hired to build a railroad between Piedmont and Austria, had various difficulties in completing his project.
Runtime: 98 min.
G.-B. 1958. Crime drama by Muriel Box with Van Johnson, Hildegard Knef, Katharine Kath. A German singer helps an American officer clear himself of murder charges.
Runtime: 85 min.

Port of Desire

V.O.: La Fille de Hambourg
Fr. 1958. Drama by Yves Allégret with Daniel Gélin, Hildegard Knef, Jean Lefebvre. In Hamburg, a French sailor tries to break a young woman out of the underworld, as she had been good to him while he was a prisoner of war.
Runtime: 86 min.

Escape from Sahara

V.O.: Madeleine und der Legionär
All. 1958. War drama by Wolfgang Staudte with Hildegard Knef, Hans Messmer, Bernhard Wicki. Three soldiers who deserted the Foreign Legion in Algeria try to return to their country.
Runtime: 101 min.
G.-B. 1954. Drama by Noel Langley with Hildegard Knef, Terence Morgan, Donald Wolfit. By means of hypnotism, a strange musician tries to turn a young girl into a great singer.
Runtime: 82 min.
U.S. 1952. Psychological drama by Henry King with Gregory Peck, Susan Hayward, Ava Gardner. Lost in the African bush, a dying writer-explorer recalls his past.
Runtime: 109 min.
G.-B. 1952. Spy drama by Carol Reed with James Mason, Claire Bloom, Hildegard Knef. A young English, on vacation in Berlin, falls in love with a Russian spy.
Runtime: 100 min.
U.S. 1952. Drama by Roy Ward Baker with Gary Merrill, Linda Darnell, Hildegard Knef. Believing he has drunkenly killed a woman, a man tries to find out which one.
Runtime: 77 min.
U.S. 1952. Spy drama by Henry Hathaway with Tyrone Power, Patricia Neal, Hildegard Knef. A diplomatic courier is assigned to retrieve secret documents on communist territory.

The Sinner

V.O.: Die Sünderin
All. 1951. Drama by Willi Forst with Hildegard Knef, Gustav Fröhlich.
Runtime: 68 min.

Les Amants tourmentés

V.O.: Nachts auf den Straßen
Runtime: 98 min.

Les Assassins sont parmi nous

V.O.: Die Mörder Sind unter Uns
All. 1947. Psychological drama by Wolfgang Staudte with Hildegard Knef, Ernst Wilhelm Borchert, Arno Paulsen.
Runtime: 81 min.

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