Journey to Happiness (German: Fahrt ins Glück) is a 1948 German romantic drama film directed by Erich Engel and starring Käthe Dorsch, Rudolf Forster and Hildegard Knef. It was made at the Babelsberg Studios in BerlinTrimborn p.83 while location shooting took place around the Attersee (lake) in Austria.The film's sets were designed by the art director Erich Kettelhut. It was one of a significant number of films produced during Nazi Germany but not released until after the fall of the Nazi regime.Rentschler p.268 It was originally made in 1944 during the Second World War, but its release was delayed by four years before it eventually premiered in the Soviet Zone.Films in Review, Volume 7. National Board of Review of Motion Pictures, 1956. p.45
Cast Käthe Dorsch as Celia Loevengaard Rudolf Forster as Konsul Hoyermann Hildegard Knef as Susanne Loevengaard Werner Fuetterer as Richard Jürgens Hedwig Wangel as Großmutter Loevengaard Ruth Nimbach as Lisette, Hausmädchen Max Eckard as Fred, Artist Gustav Knuth as Holm, Antiquitätenhändler Erich Fiedler as Varietebesucher Hans Stiebner as Varietebesucher Karl Hannemann as Gläubiger bei Loevengaards Heinrich Troxbömker as Gläubiger bei Loevengaards Helmuth Helsig as Schlafwagenschaffner Victor Janson as Varietiedirektor Maria Loja as Artist Hellmuth Passarge as Chauffeur
References
Bibliography Rentschler, Eric. The Ministry of Illusion: Nazi Cinema and Its Afterlife. Harvard University Press, 1996. Trimborn, Jürgen. Hildegard Knef: das Glück kennt nur Minuten : die Biographie. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 2005.
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