Quartet of Five

Quartet of Five (German: Quartett zu fünft) is a 1949 East German drama film directed by Gerhard Lamprecht and starring Claus Holm, Yvonne Merin and Ruth Piepho.^[1]

Quartet of Five
Theatrical film poster
German	Quartett zu fünft
Directed by	Gerhard Lamprecht
Written by	Erich Conradi Erwin Marth Wolf Neumeister Hans Vietzke
Starring	Claus Holm Yvonne Merin Ruth Piepho
Cinematography	Karl Hasselmann Fritz Lehmann
Edited by	Johanna Meisel
Music by	Franz R. Friedl
Production company	DEFA
Distributed by	Progress Film Omnium-Film (West Germany)
Release date	3 June 1949 (1949-06-03)
Running time	97 minutes
Country	East Germany
Language	German

The film's sets were designed by the art directors Artur Günther, Karl Schneider and Erich Zander.

Cast

• Claus Holm as Martin Bergau
• Yvonne Merin as Anne Treibel
• Ruth Piepho as Helga Schilling
• Inge Keller as Irene Gabriel
• Ursula Rank as Betti Krull
• Maria Rouvel as Kathrin Winkler
• Harry Hindemith as Stefan Winkler
• Alfred Schieske as Professor Mangold
• Arnold Marquis as Toni Zieseler
• Ralph Lothar as Gaston Rockschmieder
• Karl Hellmer as Dinklage
• Margarete Schön
• Charlotte Ritter as Carola Schmidt-Hanke
• Clemens Hasse as Euler
• Gustav Püttjer as Kalman
• Walter Gross as Schelleboom
• Erich Dunskus as newsman
• Karl Hannemann as workshop owner
• Johannes Bergfeldt as civil servant
• Alfred Maack as nurse #1
• Max Paetz as nurse #2
• Fredy Barten as Wirt
• Erik von Loewis as head doctor
• Reinhard Kolldehoff as patient
• Herbert Kiper as patient
• Martin Rickelt as doctor
• Elka Haedrich as visitor at the hospital
• Ilse Corell as Dinklage's secretary
• Knut Hartwig as sergeant #1
• Arthur Reinhardt as sergeant #2
• Micaela Kreißler as child with doll's carriage