Turtledove General Delivery

Turtledove General Delivery (German: Postlagernd Turteltaube) is a 1952 West German comedy film directed by Gerhard T. Buchholz and starring Horst Niendorf, Barbara Rütting and Heinz Schacht.[1] The title is a reference to the Poste restante mail service, which is used as a contract point by the film's characters. The film portrays a number of residents of East Germany who decide to escape to the West.

Turtledove General Delivery
Directed byGerhard T. Buchholz
Written byGerhard T. Buchholz
Produced byGerhard T. Buchholz
Starring
CinematographyPeter Zeller
Edited byGertrud Hinz-Nischwitz
Music byHans-Martin Majewski
Production
company
Occident Film
Distributed byDiamant-Filmverleih
Release date
29 July 1952
Running time
80 minutes
CountryWest Germany
LanguageGerman

Cast

References

  1. Bock & Bergfelder p. 305

Bibliography

  • Hans-Michael Bock and Tim Bergfelder. The Concise Cinegraph: An Encyclopedia of German Cinema. Berghahn Books, 2009.


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