No Place for Love
No Place for Love (German: Kein Platz für Liebe) is a 1947 German comedy film directed by Hans Deppe and starring Bruni Löbel, Heinz Lausch and Ernst Legal.[1] It was made in the Soviet Sector of Berlin by the state-controlled DEFA company. It is part of the post-war tradition of rubble films. Its plot revolves around the shortage of housing in the bombed-out city.
| No Place for Love | |
|---|---|
 Heinz Lausch and Bruni Löbel | |
| Directed by | Hans Deppe |
| Written by |
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| Starring | |
| Music by | Hanson Milde-Meissner |
| Cinematography | Kurt Schulz |
| Edited by | Lilian Seng |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Sovexport Film |
Release date | 31 March 1947 |
Running time | 82 minutes |
| Country | Germany |
| Language | German |
The film's sets were designed by the art director Otto Erdmann and Kurt Herlth.
Synopsis
While on leave in Berlin during the Second World War, a soldier named Hans meets a young woman named Monika. They fall in love and make plans for a future together after the war. Yet their later attempts to find an apartment and get married are hindered by the housing shortage and they have to stay separately with relatives.
Cast
- Bruni Löbel as Monika
- Heinz Lausch as Hans Winkelmann
- Ernst Legal as William Spier
- Elsa Wagner as Niobe
- Margarete Kupfer as Frau Kruse
- Hans Neie as Peter
- Wilhelm Bendow as Der Verdrießliche
- Franz-Otto Krüger as Der Sehnsüchtige
- Walter Gross
- Ewald Wenck
- Knut Hartwig
- Albert Venohr as
- Eva Maria Scholz
- Günther Lobe
- Horst Gentzen
- Ingeborg Krebs
- Erich Dunskus
- Lili Schoenborn-Anspach
- Toni Tetzlaff
- Hilde Sonntag
- Antonie Jaeckel
- Else Ehser
- Max Paetz
References
- Karl & Skopal p. 17
Bibliography
- Karl, Lars & Skopal, Pavel. Cinema in Service of the State: Perspectives on Film Culture in the GDR and Czechoslovakia, 1945–1960. Berghahn Books, 2015.