No Place for Love

No Place for Love
Heinz Lausch and Bruni Löbel
Directed by	Hans Deppe
Written by	Margarete Hackebeil Wolfgang W. Parth Hans Deppe
Starring	Bruni Löbel Heinz Lausch Ernst Legal
Cinematography	Kurt Schulz
Edited by	Lilian Seng
Music by	Hanson Milde-Meissner
Production company	DEFA
Distributed by	Sovexport Film
Release date	31 March 1947
Running time	82 minutes
Country	Germany
Language	German

No Place for Love (German: Kein Platz für Liebe) is a 1947 German comedy film directed by Hans Deppe and starring Bruni Löbel, Heinz Lausch and Ernst Legal.^[1] It was made in the Soviet Sector of Berlin by the state-controlled DEFA company. It is part of the post-war tradition of rubble films. Its plot revolves around the shortage of housing in the bombed-out city. It was shot at the Johannisthal Studios and on location around the city. The film's sets were designed by the art director Otto Erdmann and Kurt Herlth.

Synopsis

While on leave in Berlin during the Second World War, a soldier named Hans meets a young woman named Monika. They fall in love and make plans for a future together after the war. Yet their later attempts to find an apartment and get married are hindered by the housing shortage and they have to stay separately with relatives.

Cast

Bruni Löbel as Monika
Heinz Lausch as Hans Winkelmann
Ernst Legal as William Spier
Elsa Wagner as Niobe
Margarete Kupfer as Frau Kruse
Hans Neie as Peter
Wilhelm Bendow as Der Verdrießliche
Franz-Otto Krüger as Der Sehnsüchtige
Walter Gross
Ewald Wenck
Knut Hartwig
Albert Venohr as
Eva Maria Scholz
Günther Lobe
Horst Gentzen
Ingeborg Krebs
Erich Dunskus
Lili Schoenborn-Anspach
Toni Tetzlaff
Hilde Sonntag
Antonie Jaeckel
Else Ehser
Max Paetz

References

^ Karl & Skopal p. 17

Bibliography

Karl, Lars & Skopal, Pavel. Cinema in Service of the State: Perspectives on Film Culture in the GDR and Czechoslovakia, 1945–1960. Berghahn Books, 2015.