The Stronger Woman

{{Short description|1953 film}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2021}} {{Infobox film |name = The Stronger Woman |image = The Stronger Woman.jpg |caption = German film poster |native_name = {{Infobox name module|de|Die Stärkere}} |director = [[Wolfgang Liebeneiner]] |producer = Dietrich von Theobald |writer = Christa Linden (novel)<br>[[Walter von Hollander]] |starring = {{ubl|[[Gertrud Kückelmann]]|[[Hans Söhnker]]|[[Antje Weisgerber]]}} |music = [[Hans-Otto Borgmann]] |cinematography = [[Igor Oberberg]] |editing = [[Carl Otto Bartning]] |studio = [[Capitol Film]] |distributor = [[Prisma Film]] |released = {{Film date|1953|8|11|df=yes}} |runtime = 98 minutes |country = West Germany |language = German }} '''''The Stronger Woman''''' ({{langx|de|'''Die Stärkere'''}}) is a 1953 West German [[drama film]] directed by [[Wolfgang Liebeneiner]] and starring [[Gertrud Kückelmann]], [[Hans Söhnker]] and [[Antje Weisgerber]].<ref>Reimer, Robert C. ''Cultural History Through a National Socialist Lens: Essays on the Cinema of the Third Reich''. Camden House, 2002. p. 258.</ref> It was shot at the [[Tempelhof Studios]] in [[West Berlin]] and [[location shooting|on location]] at the [[Büdingen|Schloss Büdingen]]. The film's sets were designed by the [[art director]]s [[Emil Hasler]] and [[Walter Kutz]].

==Synopsis== After a car accident confines her to a [[wheelchair]] and halts her career, an [[opera singer]] suspects that her [[architect]] husband has begun an affair with an attractive young [[interior designer]] he has met.

==Cast== *[[Gertrud Kückelmann]] as Sybille Erler *[[Hans Söhnker]] as Jochen Faber *[[Antje Weisgerber]] as Elisabeth Faber *[[Paul Henckels]] as Draaden *[[Tilly Lauenstein]] as Dr. Hanna Claassen *[[Tilla Durieux]] as Mutter der Fürstin *[[Heinz Klingenberg (actor)|Heinz Klingenberg]] as Fürst von Hartefeld-Rosenau *[[Elsa Wagner]] as Frau Prein *[[Maria Sebaldt]] as Hertha *[[Harald Juhnke]] as Alfred *Lou Seitz as Frau Huber *[[Paul Bildt]] as Professor Wolters *Emil Suhrmann as Lawyer Medemann *Richard Handwerk as Waisenhausdirektor *[[Rita Streich]] as herself - singer *[[Ernst Legal]] as walker *[[Wolfgang Liebeneiner]] as conductor

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== *{{IMDb title|0046379}}

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