''Lambert Feels Threatened'' (German: ''Lambert fühlt sich bedroht'') is a 1949 Austrian

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directed by

Géza von Cziffra Géza von Cziffra (; 19 December 1900 – 28 April 1989) was a Hungarian and Austrian film director and screenwriter. Life Cziffra was a Banat German in origin, born in 1900 in Arad, Romania, Arad in the Banat region, at that date in the King ...

and starring

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and Leopold Rudolf. The film was one of only a handful of Austrian crime films produced in the

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, with similarities to American and British

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s.Fritsche p.85 It was shot at the

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and on location around

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. The film's sets were designed by the

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. It was given a West German release in September 1951.

Synopsis

Lambert a reclusive man lives in isolated house in an

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in the middle of a

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. He is obsessed with the idea that somebody wants to kill him and appeals for police protection.

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Roland takes over the case and arrives on the

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-bound island, and soon encounters strange happenings and the death of the local

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Cast

as Maria *

as Roland * Leopold Rudolf as Lambert * Paul Kemp as Bobby *

Hermann Erhardt Hermann Erhardt (January 9, 1903 in Landshut - November 30, 1958 in Vienna) was a German actor who played in more than 50 movies, among them '' Heimkehr'' and '' A Devil of a Woman''. Selected filmography * '' The Monastery's Hunter'' (1935) * ...

as Billert *

Julius Brandt Julius Brandt (5 March 1873 in Olomouc – 26 December 1949 in Vienna) was an Austrians, Austrian stage actor, stage and film actor, film director and screenwriter. Selected filmography * ''The Gentleman Without a Residence (1915 film), The Gent ...

as Arzt *

Erni Mangold Erni Mangold (sometimes Ernie or Erna; born as Erna Goldmann on 26 January 1927) is an Austrian actress and stage director. Since 1948, she had appeared in more than 75 films and TV productions. Life Goldmann was born into a family of artists. T ...

* Josef Zechell * Carl Falkner * Walter Sudra * Teddy Kern

References

Bibliography

* Fritsche, Maria. ''Homemade Men in Postwar Austrian Cinema: Nationhood, Genre and Masculinity''. Berghahn Books, 2013.

External links

* 1949 films Austrian crime films 1949 crime films Austrian mystery films 1949 mystery films 1940s German-language films Films directed by Géza von Cziffra Austrian black-and-white films Films shot at Schönbrunn Studios Sascha-Film films {{Austria-film-stub