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Why Are You Lying, Elisabeth?

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Why Are You Lying, Elisabeth?
Directed byFritz Kirchhoff
Written byJ. Schneider-Foerstl (novel)
Gerhard T. Buchholz
Produced byPeter Ostermayr
StarringCarola Höhn
Paul Richter
Annie Rosar
CinematographyWilli Peter Block
Edited byHans Domnick
Music byLudwig Schmidseder
Production
company
Distributed byDeutsche Filmvertriebs
Release date
  • 4 August 1944 (1944-08-04)
Running time
82 minutes
CountryGermany
LanguageGerman

Why Are You Lying, Elisabeth? (German: Warum lügst Du, Elisabeth?) is a 1944 German comedy film directed by Fritz Kirchhoff and starring Carola Höhn, Paul Richter and Annie Rosar.[1][2] It was shot at the Tempelhof Studios in Berlin and on location in Vienna and Semmering in Austria. The film's sets were designed by the art director Carl Ludwig Kirmse.

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References

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  1. ^ Kreimeier p.354
  2. ^ Klaus p.119

Bibliography

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  • Klaus, Ulrich J. Deutsche Tonfilme: Jahrgang 1944. Klaus-Archiv, 1988.
  • Kreimeier, Klaus. The Ufa Story: A History of Germany's Greatest Film Company, 1918-1945. University of California Press, 1999.
  • Rentschler, Eric. The Ministry of Illusion: Nazi Cinema and Its Afterlife. Harvard University Press, 1996.
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