# Arena of Fear > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Arena_of_Fear > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Arena_of_Fear.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arena_of_Fear > Source revision: 1353032808 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) 1959 film directed by Arthur Maria Rabenalt Arena of Fear Austrian film poster German Geliebte Bestie Directed by Arthur Maria Rabenalt Written by Hans Fritz Köllner Kurt Nachmann Heinrich Seiler (novel) Produced by Herbert Gruber Starring Gerhard Riedmann Margit Nünke Willy Birgel Cinematography Günther Anders Edited by Arnfried Heyne Music by Bert Grund Production companies Sascha Film Lux-Film Wien Distributed by UFA Release date 18 February 1959 (1959-02-18) Running time 96 minutes Country Austria Language German ***Arena of Fear*** ([German](/source/German_language): ***Geliebte Bestie***) is a 1959 Austrian [drama film](/source/Drama_film) directed by [Arthur Maria Rabenalt](/source/Arthur_Maria_Rabenalt) and starring [Gerhard Riedmann](/source/Gerhard_Riedmann), [Margit Nünke](/source/Margit_N%C3%BCnke) and [Willy Birgel](/source/Willy_Birgel).[1] The film's sets were designed by the [art directors](/source/Art_director) Alexander Sawczynski and [Werner Schlichting](/source/Werner_Schlichting). [Location filming](/source/Location_filming) took place at the Circus Busch-Roland. ## Cast - [Gerhard Riedmann](/source/Gerhard_Riedmann) as Ruda, Raubtierdompteur - [Margit Nünke](/source/Margit_N%C3%BCnke) as Beatrix - [Willy Birgel](/source/Willy_Birgel) as Cameron, Kunstschütze - [Fred Bertelmann](/source/Fred_Bertelmann) as John - [Mady Rahl](/source/Mady_Rahl) as Marianne - [Gustav Knuth](/source/Gustav_Knuth) as Carl de Vries - [Massimo Giuliani](/source/Massimo_Giuliani) as Willi, Dodys Sohn - [Gretl Schörg](/source/Gretl_Sch%C3%B6rg) as Olga - Sigrid Marquardt as Anita - [Heinz Moog](/source/Heinz_Moog) as director Larzheim - [Charles Baumann](/source/Charles_Baumann) as Cavalli - [Leopold Hainisch](/source/Leopold_Hainisch) as Riley - Mario Kranz as Tierwärter Freese - Emanuel Sackey as Taula - [Ljuba Welitsch](/source/Ljuba_Welitsch) as Mama Allison - [Walter Giller](/source/Walter_Giller) as Dody - Karl Kritel as Emil - Otto Hejdusek as Wirt - Berta Vitek as Frau Sandomir - Josef Menschik as Zöllner ## See also - *[Men Are That Way](/source/Men_Are_That_Way)* (1939) ## References 1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** [Bock, Hans-Michael](/source/Hans-Michael_Bock); Bergfelder, Tim, eds. (2009). *The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema*. New York: [Berghahn Books](/source/Berghahn_Books). p. 43. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-1-57181-655-9](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-57181-655-9). ## External links - [*Arena of Fear*](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052839/) at [IMDb](/source/IMDb_(identifier)) v t e Films directed by Arthur Maria Rabenalt What Am I Without You (1934) Pappi (1934) The Love of the Maharaja (1936) Men Are That Way (1939) Escape in the Dark (1939) Midsummer Night's Fire (1939) The Three Codonas (1940) Achtung! Feind hört mit! [de] (1940) Riding for Germany (1941) Front Theatre (1942) My Wife Theresa (1942) Circus Renz (1943) Love Premiere (1943) Life Calls (1944) Chemistry and Love (1948) Everything Will Be Better in the Morning (1948) Anonymous Letters (1949) Martina (1949) Nights on the Nile (1949) The Woman from Last Night (1950) Regimental Music (1950) Immortal Light (1951) Wedding in the Hay (1951) The White Adventure (1952) The Forester's Daughter (1952) We're Dancing on the Rainbow (1952) Alraune (1952) The Mistress of Treves (1952) The Immortal Vagabond (1953) Lavender (1953) The Last Waltz (1953) The Bird Seller (1953) The Little Czar (1954) The Gypsy Baron (1954) Love Is Just a Fairytale (1955) As Long as There Are Pretty Girls (1955) Operation Sleeping Bag (1955) Between Time and Eternity (1956) The Marriage of Doctor Danwitz (1956) Call Girls (1957) Spring in Berlin (1957) That Won't Keep a Sailor Down (1958) A Woman Who Knows What She Wants (1958) Arena of Fear (1959) What a Woman Dreams of in Springtime (1959) Big Request Concert (1960) Man in the Shadows (1961) Sharks on Board (1971) This article related to an Austrian film of the 1950s is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by adding missing information. - [v](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:1950s-Austria-film-stub) - [t](/source/Template_talk%3A1950s-Austria-film-stub) - [e](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:1950s-Austria-film-stub) --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Arena of Fear](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arena_of_Fear) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arena_of_Fear?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.