# Three Days of Fear

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1952 film

Three Days of Fear Directed by Erich Waschneck Written by Wolf Neumeister Produced by Erich Waschneck Starring Rudolf Platte Camilla Spira Cornelia Froboess Cinematography Otto Baecker Edited by Ilse Voigt Music by Robert Küssel Production company Fanal-Filmproduktion Distributed by Panorama-Film Release date 9 May 1952 (1952-05-09) Running time 89 minutes Country West Germany Language German

***Three Days of Fear*** ([German](/source/German_language): ***Drei Tage Angst***) is a 1952 West German [comedy](/source/Comedy_film) [crime film](/source/Crime_film) directed by [Erich Waschneck](/source/Erich_Waschneck) and starring [Rudolf Platte](/source/Rudolf_Platte), [Camilla Spira](/source/Camilla_Spira) and [Cornelia Froboess](/source/Cornelia_Froboess).[1] It was shot at the [Göttingen Studios](/source/G%C3%B6ttingen_Studios). The film's sets were designed by [Hans Jürgen Kiebach](/source/Hans_J%C3%BCrgen_Kiebach) and [Gabriel Pellon](/source/Gabriel_Pellon).

## Synopsis

A [tailor](/source/Tailor) who strongly resembles a jewel thief on the run, exchanges place with him for three days.

## Cast

- [Rudolf Platte](/source/Rudolf_Platte) as Hermann Espenlaub & Gustav Biernatzki

- [Camilla Spira](/source/Camilla_Spira) as Anna Espenlaub, seine Frau

- [Cornelia Froboess](/source/Cornelia_Froboess) as Susanne - ihre Tochter

- [Ethel Reschke](/source/Ethel_Reschke) as Rosita - Chansonette

- [Lotte Rausch](/source/Lotte_Rausch) as Lucie - Taxi-Chauffeuse

- [Paul Henckels](/source/Paul_Henckels) as Bellmann, der rabiate Herr

- [Charlotte Agotz](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Charlotte_Agotz&action=edit&redlink=1) as Madeleine Bellmann

- [Beppo Brem](/source/Beppo_Brem) as Bepöpo, ein schwerer Junge

- [Egon Vogel](/source/Egon_Vogel) as Anton - sein Komplize

- [Arthur Schröder](/source/Arthur_Schr%C3%B6der) as Schwarz - Kriminalkommissar

- [Erich Fiedler](/source/Erich_Fiedler) as Bock - Friseur

- [Hannes Ponsel](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hannes_Ponsel&action=edit&redlink=1) as Surborg, Schneidergeselle

- [Ludwig Schmitz](/source/Ludwig_Schmitz) as Wirt im 'Graf von Geldern'

- [Marina Ried](/source/Marina_Ried) as Mieze, Biernatzkis Freundin

- [Willi Rose](/source/Willi_Rose) as Kusanke - Werkmeister

- [Bruno Fritz](/source/Bruno_Fritz) as Krause - Hehler

- [Harald Paulsen](/source/Harald_Paulsen)

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** Bock & Bergfelder p. 193

## Bibliography

- Hans-Michael Bock and Tim Bergfelder. *The Concise Cinegraph: An Encyclopedia of German Cinema*. Berghahn Books, 2009.

## External links

- [*Three Days of Fear*](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0140003/) at [IMDb](/source/IMDb_(identifier))

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