Girls Behind Bars

Girls Behind Bars
Directed by	Alfred Braun
Written by	Otto-Heinz Jahn
Produced by	Artur Brauner Conrad Flockner
Starring	Petra Peters Richard Häussler Edelweiß Malchin
Cinematography	Fritz Arno Wagner
Edited by	Walter Wischniewsky
Music by	Herbert Trantow
Production company	CCC Films
Distributed by	Schorcht Filmverleih
Release date	15 November 1949 (1949-11-15)
Running time	85 minutes
Country	West Germany
Language	German

Girls Behind Bars (German: Mädchen hinter Gittern) is a 1949 West German drama film directed by Alfred Braun and starring Petra Peters, Richard Häussler and Edelweiß Malchin.^[1] It was made at the Tempelhof Studios in West Berlin. The film's sets were designed by the art director Willi Herrmann. The film was remade as the 1965 film of the same title directed by Rudolf Zehetgruber.

Cast

• Petra Peters as Ursula Schumann
• Richard Häussler as Breuhaus
• Edelweiß Malchin as Elfie Meyen
• Susi Deitz as Wanda Schmidt
• Gina Presgott as Irmchen Fischer, 'Würmchen'
• Marianne Prenzel as Lore Liebhold
• Micheline Hoerle as Isolde Loring, 'Isa'
• Gabriele Heßmann as Irmgard Rechenberg, 'Boss'
• Ruth Hausmeister as Ilse Heidenreich, 'Heidin'
• Berta Drews as Paula Rellspieß, 'Spiess'
• Else Ehser as Hanna Späthe, 'Hannchen'
• Elisabeth Wendt as Else Richnow, 'Bohnenstange'
• Ralph Lothar as Richard Halbes
• Fritz Wagner as Harald Hauffe
• Arno Paulsen as Helmcke
• Erich Dunskus as Franz Schmidt
• Alice Treff as Frau Schumann
• Renée Stobrawa as Frau Liebhold
• Hildegard Grethe as Frau Hardtcke
• Wolfgang Kühne as Dr. Helwig
• Carl Heinz Charrell as Paulus

References

1. Bergfelder p. 106

Bibliography

• Bergfelder, Tim. International Adventures: German Popular Cinema and European Co-Productions in the 1960s. Berghahn Books, 2005.

External links

• Girls Behind Bars at IMDb