The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of (film)

The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of
Directed byAlfred Vohrer
Written byManfred Purzer
Based onThe Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of by Johannes Mario Simmel
Produced byLuggi Waldleitner
Starring
CinematographyCharly Steinberger
Edited bySusanne Paschen
Music byPeter Thomas
Production
company
Distributed byConstantin Film
Release date
  • 20 September 1972 (1972-09-20)
Running time
142 minutes
CountryWest Germany
LanguageGerman

The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of (German: Der Stoff aus dem die Träume sind) is a 1972 West German thriller film directed by Alfred Vohrer and starring Edith Heerdegen, Hannelore Elsner and Herbert Fleischmann.[1] It was adapted from a novel of the same title by the Austrian writer Johannes Mario Simmel. [2]

Synopsis

A West German investigative journalist becomes interested in the story of some defectors from Czechoslovakia who fled to the West after the crushing of the Prague Spring in 1968. When one of them is then killed, the involvement of several intelligence agencies becomes slowly apparent.

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References

Bibliography

  • Bock, Hans-Michael & Bergfelder, Tim. The Concise CineGraph. Encyclopedia of German Cinema. Berghahn Books, 2009.


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