Das Geheimnis vom Bergsee (1952)
1h 20m
Running Time
September 26, 1952Release Date
Das Geheimnis vom Bergsee (1952)
1h 20m
Running Time
September 26, 1952Release Date
Plot.
Pietro Ponz lives a happy life in the mountains on the Swiss-Italian border with his mother Lamberta. No one but his mother knows that Pietro is a girl, a deception that Lamberta was forced into by a series of tragedies almost twenty years previously. Not long after her husband Joseph Ponz died, Lamberta also lost her fragile infant son, Pietro. Whilst mourning this double loss, she began an affair with Bolzano, a notorious smuggler. After Bolzano was killed by the customs men, Lamberta gave birth to his child, a little girl that she decided to pass off as her son Pietro, in the hope of securing an inheritance from her husband's wealthy parents. Now that Pietro is fast coming of age, his tutor and grandmother are adamant that he should be sent to a religious school. Pietro escapes from the school and joins a gang of smugglers..
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Cast & Crew.
Harriet Geßner
Angelina
Lil Dagover
Lamberta
Fredy Scheim
Bürgermeister
Marcelle Géniat
Michel Barbey
Calix
Jean Dréville
Director
Michel Simon
Bürgermeister (french version)
Marc Fossard
Camera Department Manager / Cinematography
Details.
Wiki.
The Secret of the Mountain Lake (German: Das Geheimnis vom Bergsee) is a 1952 drama film directed by Jean Dréville and starring Harriet Geßner, Lil Dagover and Fredy Scheim. It was made as a co-production between France, Switzerland and West Germany. A separate French-language film, The Girl with the Whip, was also released. It was shot at the Billancourt Studios in Paris and on location around Verbier, Saas-Fee and the Forest of Fontainebleau.