When the Heath Dreams at Night

When the Heath Dreams at Night
Directed by	Paul Martin
Written by	Juliane Kay Paul Martin Tibor Yost
Starring	Rudolf Prack Viktor Staal Margot Trooger
Cinematography	Willy Winterstein
Edited by	Hermann Ludwig
Music by	Herbert Windt
Production companies	Apollo-Film Berolina Film
Distributed by	Gloria Film
Release date	19 December 1952
Running time	98 minutes
Country	West Germany
Language	German

When the Heath Dreams at Night (German: Wenn abends die Heide träumt) is a 1952 West German drama film directed by Paul Martin and starring Rudolf Prack, Viktor Staal and Margot Trooger.

The film's sets were designed by Carl Ludwig Kirmse and Walter Kutz. It was shot in studios in Göttingen and on Lüneburg Heath.

Synopsis

A young man who works making safe unexploded Second World War bombs on Lüneburg Heath invites an old wartime comrade to stay with him. However problems ensue when the visitor falls in love with his fiancée.

Cast

• Rudolf Prack as Peter Gelius, Sprengmeister
• Viktor Staal as Karl Odewig
• Margot Trooger as Helga
• Fita Benkhoff as Hermine Knauer
• Siegfried Breuer as Konsul Berghaus
• Margarete Haagen as Frau Odewig, Karls Mutter
• Ilse Steppat as Brigitte
• Beppo Brem as Xaver Franz
• Albert Florath as Bürgermeister Knauer
• Walter Franck
• Ernst Deutsch
• Otto Gebühr
• Berta Drews
• Walter Gross
• Reinhard Kolldehoff
• Franz-Otto Krüger
• Paul Heidemann
• Else Reval
• Hans Stiebner
• Victor Janson
• Werner Stock
• Arno Paulsen
• Erich Dunskus
• Erwin Biegel
• Gustav Bertram

Bibliography

• Spicer, Andrew. Historical Dictionary of Film Noir. Scarecrow Press, 2010.

External links

• When the Heath Dreams at Night at IMDb