The Golden Plague | |
Native Name: | |
Director: | John Brahm |
Producer: | Gerhard T. Buchholz Walter Guse |
Cinematography: | Klaus von Rautenfeld |
Editing: | Walter Boos Wolfgang Flaum |
Music: | Hans-Martin Majewski |
Studio: | Occident Film |
Distributor: | Allianz Filmverleih |
Runtime: | 96 minutes |
Country: | West Germany |
Language: | German |
The Golden Plague (German: '''Die goldene Pest''') is a 1954 West German drama film directed by John Brahm and starring Ivan Desny, Karlheinz Böhm, and Gertrud Kückelmann.[1] The film's sets were designed by the art director Alfred Bütow. Location shooting took place in Dotzheim and Kaiserslautern.
Ivan Desny plays a disillusioned exile returning to Germany from the United States. The film centers around drug trafficking and the black market.[1] [2]