Taiga (1958 film)

Taiga
Directed by Wolfgang Liebeneiner
Produced by Utz Utermann
Written by Herbert Reinecker
Starring Ruth Leuwerik
Hannes Messemer
Günter Pfitzmann
Music by Christian Riss
Cinematography Georg Krause
Edited by Margot von Schlieffen
Production
company
Distributed by Schorcht Filmverleih
Sascha Film (Austria)
Release date
28 August 1958
Running time
100 minutes
Country West Germany
Language German

Taiga is a 1958 West German drama film directed by Wolfgang Liebeneiner and starring Ruth Leuwerik, Hannes Messemer and Günter Pfitzmann.[1]

It was shot at the Bavaria Studios in Munich. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Robert Herlth and Gottfried Will. The title refers to the taiga that covers much of Siberia.

Synopsis

During the Second World War a female Doctor tends to the German prisoners held in a camp in Siberia.

Cast

References

  1. Frey p.44

Bibliography

  • Frey, Mattias. Postwall German Cinema: History, Film History and Cinephilia. Berghahn Books, 2013.
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