Turtledove General Delivery

Turtledove General Delivery (German: Postlagernd Turteltaube) is a 1952 West German comedy film directed by Gerhard T. Buchholz and starring Horst Niendorf, Barbara Rütting and Heinz Schacht.^[1] The title is a reference to the Poste restante mail service, which is used as a contact point by the film's characters. The film portrays a number of residents of East Germany who decide to escape to the West.

Turtledove General Delivery
Directed by	Gerhard T. Buchholz
Written by	Gerhard T. Buchholz
Produced by	Gerhard T. Buchholz
Starring	Horst Niendorf Barbara Rütting Heinz Schacht
Cinematography	Peter Zeller
Edited by	Gertrud Hinz-Nischwitz
Music by	Hans-Martin Majewski
Production company	Occident Film
Distributed by	Diamant-Filmverleih
Release date	29 July 1952 (1952-07-29)
Running time	80 minutes
Country	West Germany
Language	German

Cast

• Horst Niendorf as Max Beutner
• Barbara Rütting as Ilse Krüger
• Heinz Schacht as Fürchtegott Plischke
• Ilse Parther as Ida Plischke, seine Frau
• Wolfgang Jansen as Ernst, deren Sohn
• Reinhard Kolldehoff
• Wolfgang Condrus as Gustav, deren Sohn
• Frietmar Wehner as Adolf, deren Sohn
• Hermann Schomberg as Professor Richard Gomoll
• Emilie Altvater as Jutta Gomoll - seine Frau
• Olga Limburg as Freifrau Hermione von Gilsen-Bernburg
• Alf Marholm as Benno Perlitz, Zeichner
• Paul Albert Krumm as Wolfgang Hartung, Redakteur
• Lu Säuberlich as Lena Forche, Redakteurin
• Ernst Stahl-Nachbaur as Arthur Gomoll, Generaldirektor
• Roma Bahn as Camilla Gomoll, seine Frau

References

1. Bock & Bergfelder p. 305

Bibliography

• Hans-Michael Bock and Tim Bergfelder. The Concise Cinegraph: An Encyclopedia of German Cinema. Berghahn Books, 2009.

External links

• Turtledove General Delivery at IMDb