Portrait from Life (Original title)Portrait of Hildegard (Working title)Journey into Yesterday (Alternative title)The Girl in the Painting (Alternative title)
Date: 1948 (Copyright)Country: United KingdomDirected by: Terence Fisher
Synopsis: A professor recognises a portrait as being of his daughter. A major finds her in a D.P. camp and traces her history to her forcible adoption by an SS man while amnesiac. She finds her memory and is reunited with her father.
Genre: War
Subjects: European refugees, World War II, Aftermath of war, Third Reich, Nazi Party, Amnesia
Releases
Date: 1948Country: United KingdomRelease type: unknownFormat: 35mm Film - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 90 mins Length: 8095 FeetDialogue (original): English
Date: 1948 (Copyright)Country: United KingdomDirected by: Terence Fisher
Synopsis: A professor recognises a portrait as being of his daughter. A major finds her in a D.P. camp and traces her history to her forcible adoption by an SS man while amnesiac. She finds her memory and is reunited with her father.
Genre: War
Subjects: European refugees, World War II, Aftermath of war, Third Reich, Nazi Party, Amnesia
Releases
Date: 1948Country: United KingdomRelease type: unknownFormat: 35mm Film - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 90 mins Length: 8095 FeetDialogue (original): English
Credits
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©: Gainsborough Pictures, A Gainsborough Picture: Gainsborough Pictures, J. Arthur Rank Presents: The Rank Organisation, Produced by: Antony Darnborough, In Charge of Production: Sydney Box, Production Manager: Douglas Peirce, Production Controller: Arthur Alcott, [Location Manager]: Billy Asher, Assistant Director: Ernie Morris, [Assistant Director (2nd)]: Bert Marotta, [Assistant Director (3rd)]: John Draper, [Continuity]: Peg Pearson, [Assistant Continuity]: Beryl Harvey, [Casting]: Weston Drury Jr, Screenplay by: Frank Harvey Jr, Screenplay by: Muriel Box, Sydney Box, Original Story by: David Evans, Director of Photography: Jack Asher, [Location Photography]: Gordon Lang, Camera Operator: Len Harris, [Camera Operator (Location)]: John Gunn, [Focus Puller]: John Harris, [Focus Puller (Location)]: Phil Law, [Clapper Loader]: Steve Claydon, [Clapper Loader (Location)]: James Turrell, [Camera Loading Departnent]: Charles French, [In Charge of Camera Department]: George Hill, [Stills]: A. Chapman, Norman Hargood, [Portrait Stills]: John Jay, [Back Projectionist]: A. Davis, H. Allen, [Miniature Special Effects]: Filippo Guidobaldi, Editor: V. Sagovsky, [Assembly Cutter]: May Dennington, [Assistant Editor (1st)]: J. Devis, [Assistant Editor (2nd)]: Christopher Lancaster, Alfred Wilson, Supervising Art Director: George Provis, Art Director: John Elphick, [Assistant Art Director (Set)]: Iris Newell, [Chief Draughtsman]: Jack Maxsted, [Draughtsman]: Roy Dorman, [Draughtsman]: Charles Bishop, Herbert Smith, [Scenic Artist]: Fred Mannin, [Scenic Artist]: W. Sawyer, Ted Barnes, Dress Designer: Joan Ellacott, [Wardrobe Mistress]: Dolly Smith, [Wardrobe Master]: William Neale, Make-up: W.T. Partleton, [Hairdresser]: Elsie Alder, Music Composed by: Benjamin Frankel, and [Music] Played by: The London Symphony Orchestra, Music Director: Muir Mathieson, Director of Sound: Brian Sewell, [Sound] Recording: Al Rhind, W. Salter, [Sound Camera Operator]: Leonard Abbott, [Sound Maintenance]: Alfred Witcomb, Sound System: British Acoustic Film, [Boom Operator]: Cyril Swern, [Boom Assistant]: George Gradwell, [Dubbing Crew]: William Salter, [Dubbing Crew]: Ronald Abbott, [Dubbing Crew]: L. Coleman, William Germain, [Dubbing Editor]: Rita Murison, [Assistant Dubbing Editor]: Kathleen Barton, [Assistant Dubbing Editor (2nd)]: D. Green, John Zambardi, Sound System: BAF Sound System, [Dialogue Director]: Muriel Box, Made at: Gainsborough Studios
Cast
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Mai Zetterling (Hildegard), Robert Beatty (Duncan Reid), Guy Rolfe (Major Lawrence), Herbert Lom (Hendlmann), Patrick Holt (Ferguson), Arnold Marlè (Professor Franz Menzel), Sybilla Binder (Eitel Hendlmann), George Thorpe (brigadier), Gerard Heinz (Heine), Philo Hauser (Hans Ackermann), Thora Hird (Mrs Skinner), Peter Murray (Lieutenant Keith), Eric Messiter (coroner), Cyril Chamberlain (supervisor), Betty Lynne (interpreter), Dorothea Glade (Hildegard Schmidt), Nellie Arno (Anna Skutetsky), Richard Molinas (man in crowd with Anna), Hugo Schuster (interpreter), Gordon Bell (Captain Roberts), Sam Kydd (army truck driver), Eric Pohlmann (leader of search party), Charles Rolfe ([art gallery attendant]), Yvonne Owen ([Helen]), Anthony Steel ([bridegroom]), Michael Hordern ([Johnson]), Dennis Harkin ([Richard]), Lucille Rath ([Helga]), Dennis Vance ([orderly in officer's mess]), Liselotte Kristian ([Frieda]), John Blythe ([Johnnie]), Arthur Young ([club pianist]), Arthur Hambling ([coroner's officer]), Ralph De Pomerai ([Garson]), Renee Goddard ([student]), Christina Forbes ([Hildegard Nacht]), Paul Hansard ([Fritz]), Jan Stachow ([Schwartz]), Donald Sinden ([Roberts - replaced by Gordon Bell]), Ernest Thesiger ([Bloomfield - scenes deleted]), Carl Jaffe, Meinhart Maur ([soapbox man - scenes deleted]), Oscar Ebelsbacher ([Hendlmann, musician - scenes deleted]), Tutte Lemkow ([Hans - replaced by Philo Hauser]), Dandy Nichols ([Mrs Clements - scenes deleted]), Joseph Plaut ([Friedrich Menzel - scenes deleted]), Bernard Rebel ([carpenter - scenes deleted]), Willoughby Grey, Lionel Grose ([stone thrower - scenes deleted])