History 1950

Hans Schweikart makes GELIEBTER LÜGNER with Gustav Knuth in the title role. Josef von Baky films Erich Kästner's DAS DOPPELTE LOTTCHEN with Isa and Jutta Günther. Sybille Schmitz appears in two Munich productions: SENSATION IM SAVOY (director: Eduard von Borsody) and KRONJUWELEN (director: Franz Cap). Hans Albers makes FÖHN (director: Rolf Hansen) and VOM TEUFEL GEJAGT (director: Viktor Tourjansky) in Geiselgasteig. Peter Ostermayr starts his first post-war production: DER GEIGENMACHER VON MITTENWALD (director: Rudolf Schündler). The first foreign production to take place in Geiselgasteig is Anatole Litvak's DECISION BEFORE DAWN with Oskar Werner, Hildegard Knef and Peter Lühr. Klaus Kinski and Charles Regnier play minor roles. Litvak brings his cameraman Franz Planer with him from Hollywood. Up to 1937, he had been active in Munich, Berlin and Vienna and had started his career with Ostermayr. Orson Welles comes to Geiselgasteig at the end of August. A scene from Shakespeare's RICHARD III is tested. The cameraman is George Fanto, with whom Welles had already made his OTHELLO film. The two German cameramen Lutz Hapke and Herbert Müller also attend the screen tests.