''Paths in Twilight'' (german: Wege im Zwielicht) is a 1948 West German

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directed by and starring

Gustav Fröhlich Gustav Fröhlich (21 March 1902 – 22 December 1987) was a German actor and film director. He landed secondary roles in a number of films and plays before landing his breakthrough role of Freder Fredersen in Fritz Lang's 1927 film '' Metropo ...

.Bock & Bergfelder p. 139 It also features

Sonja Ziemann Sonja Alice Selma Toni Ziemann (; 8 February 1926 – 17 February 2020) was a German film and television actress. In the 1950s, she was among Germany's most prominent actresses, awarded the 1950 Bambi for appearing, together with Rudolf Prack, ...

and

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. It is part of the

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tradition made in

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in the wake of the

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. It was shot at the Bendestorf Studios outside

Hamburg Hamburg (, ; nds, label=Hamburg German, Low Saxon, Hamborg ), officially the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg (german: Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg; nds, label=Low Saxon, Friee un Hansestadt Hamborg),. is the List of cities in Germany by popul ...

and on location in

Hannover Hanover (; german: Hannover ; nds, Hannober) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Lower Saxony. Its 535,932 (2021) inhabitants make it the 13th-largest city in Germany as well as the fourth-largest city in Northern Germany ...

. The film's sets were designed by the art director

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Synopsis

The film portrays the lives of three youths in immediate post-war Hannover who are homeless and try to make a living on the

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. When they are falsely connected with a murder they flee the city to the countryside where a sympathetic mayor offers them a fresh start.

Cast

as Otto Lukas * Johanna Lepski as Edith Siems *

as Lissy Stenzel *

as Stefan Kolb * Gerd E. Schäfer as Peter Wille *

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as Sepp Lauterjung * Axel Scholtz as Erwin Putzke *

Hubert Endlein Hubert is a Germanic masculine given name, from ''hug'' "mind" and ''beraht'' "bright". It also occurs as a surname. Saint Hubertus or Hubert (c. 656 – 30 May 727) is the patron saint of hunters, mathematicians, opticians, and metalworkers. ...

* Peter A. Horn *

Hanns Lothar Hanns Lothar (born Hans Lothar Neutze; 10 April 1929 – 11 March 1967) was a German film actor. He appeared in 36 films between 1948 and 1966. He was born in Hannover, Germany and died in Hamburg, Germany. He was the father of actress Susan ...

Wolfgang Völz Wolfgang Otto Völz (16 August 1930 – 2 May 2018) was a German actor. He is known for his roles in theatre plays, TV shows, feature films (especially German films based on Edgar Wallace works) and taped radio shows. He was also a very prolifi ...

as Junger Ganove

References

Bibliography

* Bock, Hans-Michael & Bergfelder, Tim. ''The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema''. Berghahn Books, 2009.

External links

* 1948 films German drama films 1948 drama films West German films 1940s German-language films Films directed by Gustav Fröhlich German black-and-white films 1940s German films {{1940s-Germany-film-stub