Turtledove General Delivery

1952 West German comedy film

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

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.

## Cast

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* 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

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1. ^ Bock & Bergfelder p. 305

## Bibliography

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

## External links

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* Turtledove General Delivery at IMDb

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