The Scarlet Baroness

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The Scarlet Baroness
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Directed by Rudolf Jugert
Written by J. Joachim Bartsch
Produced by Franz Seitz
Starring
Cinematography Heinz Schnackertz
Edited by Ingeborg Taschner
Music by Rolf A. Wilhelm
Production
company
Franz Seitz Filmproduktion
Distributed byTransocean-Film
Release date
  • 20 February 1959 (1959-02-20)
Running time
99 minutes
CountryWest Germany
Language German

The Scarlet Baroness (German: Die feuerrote Baronesse) is a 1959 West German spy thriller film directed by Rudolf Jugert and starring Dawn Addams, Joachim Fuchsberger and Wera Frydtberg. [1]

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The film's sets were designed by the art director Arne Flekstad. It was shot at the Arca-Filmstudio in Berlin.

Synopsis

During the final days of the Second World War, British intelligence sends an agent to Berlin to try to discover the secrets of Nazi Germany's nuclear weapons program.

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References

  1. Craig p.324

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