The Girl with the Cat's Eyes

The Girl with the Cat's Eyes
Directed byEugen York
Written byWerner P. Zibaso
Produced byWilly Zeyn
StarringVera Tschechowa
Joachim Fuchsberger
Wolfgang Preiss
CinematographyHeinz Hölscher
Edited byAlexandra Anatra
Music byWilly Mattes
Production
company
Willy Zeyn-Film
Distributed byUnion-Film
Release date
  • 28 November 1958 (1958-11-28)
Running time
89 minutes
CountryWest Germany
LanguageGerman

The Girl with the Cat's Eyes (German: Das Mädchen mit den Katzenaugen) is a 1958 West German crime thriller film directed by Eugen York and starring Vera Tschechowa, Joachim Fuchsberger and Wolfgang Preiss.[1] It was shot at the Bendestorf Studios and on location around Hamburg. The film's sets were designed by the art director Wilhelm Vorwerg.[2]

Synopsis

Katja returns to Hamburg to live with her father has hers a job as a dancer in a nightclub on the Reeperbahn. It is in fact the front for a gang of car thieves who are using her own father's workshop through blackmail. She also encounters a police detective who is on the trail of the leader of the gang, the owner of the nightclub.

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Bibliography

  • Bock, Hans-Michael & Bergfelder, Tim. The Concise CineGraph. Encyclopedia of German Cinema. Berghahn Books, 2009.
  • Strauven, Michael. Jedermanns Lieblingsschurke: Gert Fröbe. Eine Biographie. Rotbuch Verlag, 2013.