''Ramona'' is a 1961 West German
musical film
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directed by
Paul Martin
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Th ...
and starring
Senta Berger
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,
Joachim Hansen and
Ruth Stephan.
[Koepnick p.65]
It was shot at the
Spandau Studios
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in
Berlin
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. The film's sets were designed by the
art director
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It is the charge of a sole art director to supe ...
s
Paul Markwitz
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and
Wilhelm Vorwerg
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Selected filmography
* '' In the Name of the ...
.
Cast
*
Senta Berger
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as Yvonne
*
Joachim Hansen as Steinberg
*
Ruth Stephan as Ellinor
*
Georg Thomalla
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as Tom Kroll
*
Judith Dornys as Ramona
*
Willy Hagara as Montez
*
Loni Heuser as Nannen
*
Edith Schollwer as Hedwig
*
Ralf Wolter
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Life and career
Wolter began his long career on the B ...
as Delon
*
Gerold Wanke as Pepe
*
Peggy Brown
*
Jimmy Makulis
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*
Roland Kaiser as Regieassistent
*
Tutte Lemkow
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*
Katja Lindenberg
*
Sara Luzita
*
Blue Diamonds
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as themselves
*
Jan & Kjeld as themselves
* The
Jochen Brauer Sextet as themselves
References
Bibliography
* Lutz Peter Koepnick. ''The Cosmopolitan Screen: German Cinema and the Global Imaginary, 1945 to the Present''. University of Michigan Press, 2007.
External links
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1961 films
West German films
German musical comedy films
1961 musical comedy films
1960s German-language films
Films directed by Paul Martin
Gloria Film films
Films shot at Spandau Studios
1960s German films
Films scored by Gert Wilden
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