Love Letters from Engadin

Love Letters from Engadin
Directed by	Luis Trenker Werner Klingler
Written by	Hanns Sassmann Luis Trenker
Produced by	Alf Teichs Walter Tost Luis Trenker
Starring	Luis Trenker Carla Rust Erika von Thellmann
Cinematography	Hans Ertl Karl Puth Walter Riml Klaus von Rautenfeld
Edited by	Waldemar Gaede
Music by	Giuseppe Becce
Production company	Luis Trenker-Film
Distributed by	Terra Film
Release date	5 December 1938 (1938-12-05)
Running time	95 minutes
Country	Nazi Germany
Language	German

Love Letters from Engadin or Love Letters from the Engadine (German: Liebesbriefe aus dem Engadin) is a 1938 German romantic comedy film directed by Luis Trenker and Werner Klingler and starring Trenker, Carla Rust and Erika von Thellmann.^[1] It contains elements of the mountain film genre for which Trenker was best known. It is set in London and in the Engadin valley in the Swiss Alps, where much of the location shooting took place. Interiors were shot at the Sievering and Schönbrunn Studios in Vienna, which had recently been annexed by Germany.^[2] The film's sets were designed by the art director Fritz Maurischat. It was distributed by Terra Film.

Synopsis

The manager of a ski resort decides to raise money by writing love letters on behalf of his popular ski instructor to various former pupils asking them to visit the resort again and donate to new facilities. This causes complications when one of his former students in London breaks off her engagement to an aristocrat, having discovered he is marrying her for her fortune, and travels out to Switzerland accompanied by a female friend.

Main cast

• Luis Trenker as Toni Anewanter
• Carla Rust as Dorothy Baxter
• Erika von Thellmann as Anni Anewanter, Tonis Schwester
• Charlott Daudert as Constance Farrington
• Paul Heidemann as Lord Horace Baxter, Dorothys Vater
• Robert Dorsay as Jack, Kammerdienter
• Otto Wernicke as Thomas Viertinger, Hotelier
• Umberto Sacripante as Dr. Sacripanti
• Anton Pointner as Amtsrichter Rung

References

1. Höbusch p. 212
2. Klaus p.123

Bibliography

• Höbusch, Harald (2016). Mountain of Destiny: Nanga Parbat and Its Path Into the German Imagination. Boydell & Brewer. ISBN 978-1-57113-958-0.
• Klaus, Ulrich J. Deutsche Tonfilme: Jahrgang 1938. Klaus-Archiv, 1988.

External links

• Love Letters from Engadin at IMDb