A Heidelberg Romance

1951 film

Willy Clever
Karl Peter Gillmann

Produced byHeinrich JonenStarring

Liselotte Pulver
O.W. Fischer
Gardy Granass
Gunnar Möller

CinematographyKonstantin Irmen-TschetEdited byIlse VoigtMusic byWerner R. Heymann

Production
company

Meteor-Film

Distributed bySchorcht Filmverleih

Release date

23 December 1951 (1951-12-23)

Running time

97 minutesCountryWest GermanyLanguageGerman

A Heidelberg Romance (German: Heidelberger Romanze) is a 1951 West German romance film directed by Paul Verhoeven and starring Liselotte Pulver, O.W. Fischer and Gardy Granass. While accompanying his daughter on a trip to Heidelberg, a wealthy American businessman recounts a romance he had with a local girl forty years before. The film set a template for portraying German-American relations.^[1]

The film's sets were designed by the art directors Paul Markwitz and Fritz Maurischat. It was shot at the Bendestorf Studios and on location in Heidelberg.

Cast

Liselotte Pulver as Susanne Edwards
O.W. Fischer as Hans-Joachim, Prinz von Reiningen
Gardy Granass as Fannerl Brückner
Gunnar Möller as William Edwards jr
Hans Leibelt as William Edwards
Ruth Niehaus as Gabriele Attendorf
Hans Reiser as Erwin Turner
Margarete Haagen as Tante Amalie Brückner
Paul Verhoeven as Detektiv Schulze
Melanie Horeschowsky as Alte Fannerl
Joachim Brennecke as Thomas Altendorf
Franz Schafheitlin as Hotelbediensteter

References

^ Stephan p.163

Bibliography

Bergfelder, Tim & Bock, Hans-Michael. The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopedia of German. Berghahn Books, 2009.
Stephan, Alexander. Americanization & Anti-Americanism: The German Encounter With American Culture After 1945. Berghahn Books, 2005.