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Love Letters from Engadin (1938)

Love Letters from Engadin poster
Original title
Liebesbriefe aus dem Engadin
Directed by
Luis Trenker, Werner Klingler
Genre
comedy film
Country
Nazi Germany
Runtime
1h 35m
Rating
6.0 of 10 from 2 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A romantic comedy set between London and the Swiss Alps. A man gets entangled in a mix-up involving love letters while visiting the Engadin valley.

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What happens

Love Letters from Engadin or Love Letters from the Engadine (German: Liebesbriefe aus dem Engadin) is a 1938 German romantic comedy film directed by Luis Trenker and Werner Klingler and starring Trenker, Carla Rust and Erika von Thellmann. It contains elements of the mountain film genre for which Trenker was best known. It is set in London and in the Engadin valley in the Swiss Alps, where much of the location shooting took place. Interiors were shot at the Sievering and Schönbrunn Studios in Vienna, which had recently been annexed by Germany. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Fritz Maurischat and Arthur Schwarz. It was distributed by Terra Film. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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