Aurora Marriage Bureau (German: Eheinstitut Aurora) is a 1962 West German mystery crime film directed by Wolfgang Schleif and starring Eva Bartok, Carlos Thompson and Elisabeth Flickenschildt.Quinlan p.44Curti p.26 It is based on the novel of the same title by Hans-Ulrich Horster.https://www.filmportal.de/film/eheinstitut-aurora_6dd3d1ea40ef442f968d739d0ece5120 It was shot at the Tempelhof Studios in West Berlin. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Albrecht Hennings, Ellen Schmidt and Mathias Matthies.
Synopsis Eva Horn has spent several years in prison for murdering her wealthy industrialist husband. Still protesting her innocence, her lawyer secures her a release of one week to try and find the real killer. Her investigations take her to an outwardly respectable marriage bureau in Berlin which is actually a front for a shady blackmailing ring run by a fraudulent baroness.
Cast Eva Bartok as Eva Horn Carlos Thompson as Christinow Tomkin Elisabeth Flickenschildt as Hortense Edle von Padula Claus Holm as Arnold Lewandowski Hans Nielsen as Dr. Burgmüller, Anwalt Ina Duscha as Lore Karmann Rainer Brandt as Friedrich - Sohn Rudolf Vogel as Graf Hohenperg Ljuba Welitsch as Mrs. Pearl Albert Bessler as Charles, Diener Ruth Nimbach as Fräulein Stadlmeier Walter Gross as Herr Bolwieser Carsta Löck as Zenzi, Hausmädchen
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Bibliography Curti, Roberto. Blood and Black Lace. Liverpool University Press, 2020. Quinlan, David. Quinlan's Film Stars. Batsford, 2000.
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