Journey to Happiness

Journey to Happiness
Directed byErich Engel
Written byThea von Harbou
Produced byWalter Bolz
StarringKäthe Dorsch
Rudolf Forster
Hildegard Knef
CinematographyFranz Weihmayr
Edited byWalter von Bonhorst
Music byBruno Balz
Production
company
Distributed bySovexport Film
Release date
  • 6 August 1948 (1948-08-06)
Running time
88 minutes
CountryGermany
LanguageGerman

Journey to Happiness (German: Fahrt ins Glück) is a 1948 German romantic drama film directed by Erich Engel and starring Käthe Dorsch, Rudolf Forster and Hildegard Knef. It was made at the Babelsberg Studios in Berlin[1] while location shooting took place around the Attersee (lake) in Austria.The film's sets were designed by the art director Erich Kettelhut. It was one of a significant number of films produced during Nazi Germany but not released until after the fall of the Nazi regime.[2] It was originally made in 1944 during the Second World War, but its release was delayed by four years before it eventually premiered in the Soviet Zone.[3]

Cast

References

  1. ^ Trimborn p.83
  2. ^ Rentschler p.268
  3. ^ Films in Review, Volume 7. National Board of Review of Motion Pictures, 1956. p.45

Bibliography

  • Rentschler, Eric. The Ministry of Illusion: Nazi Cinema and Its Afterlife. Harvard University Press, 1996.
  • Trimborn, Jürgen. Hildegard Knef: das Glück kennt nur Minuten : die Biographie. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 2005.
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