Poison in the Zoo

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Poison in the Zoo
Poison in the Zoo.jpg
Directed by
Written by Edgar Kahn
Produced by Werner Ludwig
Starring
Cinematography Ekkehard Kyrath
Edited by Anneliese Schönnenbeck
Music by Marc Hendriks
Production
company
Camera-Filmproduktion
Distributed byNational-Film
Release date
  • 24 January 1952 (1952-01-24)
Running time
84 minutes
CountryWest Germany
Language German

Poison in the Zoo (German : Gift im Zoo) is a 1952 West German thriller film directed by Hans Müller and Wolfgang Staudte and starring Irene von Meyendorff, Carl Raddatz and Petra Peters.

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Production

During production in 1951, director Wolfgang Staudte was removed and replaced when the West German authorities refused to consider the production eligible for state subsidies unless Staudte declared that he would no longer work for the DEFA studios of the Communist East German state. Staudte, who had made several major productions for DEFA, refused and was replaced by Müller. [1]

The film was shot at the Wandsbek Studios in Hamburg and on location in the city's Tierpark Hagenbeck. The sets were designed by Albrecht Becker and Herbert Kirchhoff.

Synopsis

After a series of mysterious deaths of animals at a zoo the police are called in to investigate.

Cast

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References

  1. Schissler p. 297

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