Poison in the Zoo

{{Short description|1952 film}} {{Infobox film | name = Poison in the Zoo | image =Poison in the Zoo.jpg | caption = | director = {{ubl|[[Hans Müller (director)|Hans Müller]]|[[Wolfgang Staudte]]}} | producer = [[Werner Ludwig]] | writer = [[Edgar Kahn]] | narrator = | starring = {{ubl|[[Irene von Meyendorff]]|[[Carl Raddatz]]|[[Petra Peters]]}} | music = [[Marc Hendriks]] | cinematography = [[Ekkehard Kyrath]] | editing = [[Anneliese Schönnenbeck]] | studio = Camera-Filmproduktion | distributor = National-Film | released = {{Film date|1952|01|24|df=yes}} | runtime = 84 minutes | country = West Germany | language = [[German language|German]] | budget = | gross = }} '''''Poison in the Zoo''''' ({{langx|de|'''Gift im Zoo'''}}) is a 1952 West German [[thriller film]] directed by [[Hans Müller (director)|Hans Müller]] and [[Wolfgang Staudte]] and starring [[Irene von Meyendorff]], [[Carl Raddatz]] and [[Petra Peters]].

==Production== During production in 1951, director Wolfgang Staudte was removed and replaced when the [[Federal Government of Germany|West German authorities]] refused to consider the production eligible for state subsidies unless Staudte declared that he would no longer work for the [[DEFA]] studios of the [[Communist]] [[East German]] state. Staudte, who had made several major productions for DEFA, refused and was replaced by Müller.<ref>Schissler p. 297</ref>

The film was shot at the [[Wandsbek Studios]] in [[Hamburg]] and [[Filming location|on location]] in the city's [[Tierpark Hagenbeck]]. The sets were designed by [[Albrecht Becker]] and [[Herbert Kirchhoff]].

==Synopsis== After a series of mysterious deaths of animals at a [[zoo]] the police are called in to investigate.

==Cast== * [[Irene von Meyendorff]] as Vera Pauly * [[Carl Raddatz]] as Dr. Martin Rettberg * [[Petra Peters]] as Jutta Flamm * [[Ernst Schröder (actor)|Ernst Schröder]] as Oskar Beck * [[Hermann Speelmans]] as Kriminalrat Walter Glasbrenner * [[Nicolas Koline]] as Wärter Mathias * [[Kurt Meister]] as Oberwärter Kruschke * [[Otto Reimer]] as Wärter Robby * [[Helmut Peine]] as Kriminalkommissar Werner * [[Tilla Hohmann]] as Wirtschafterin Karola * [[Hella Attenberger]] as Gaby Rettberg * [[Alwin Pauli]] as Oberwärter Berger * [[Bruno Klockmann]] as Polizeichef Dr. Wöltje

== References == {{reflist}}

== Bibliography == * Hans-Michael Bock and Tim Bergfelder. ''The Concise Cinegraph: An Encyclopedia of German Cinema''. Berghahn Books, 2009. * Hanna Schissler. ''The Miracle Years: A Cultural History of West Germany, 1949–1968''. Princeton University Press, 2001.

== External links == * {{IMDb title|0043586}}

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