Portrait from Life (1948)

Directors

Terence Fisher

Cast

Anthony Steel, Donald Sinden, Ernest Thesiger, Guy Rolfe, Herbert Lom, Mai Zetterling, Michael Hordern, Patrick Holt, Robert Beatty

The story

A British Army officer, Major Lawrence, is on leave from being stationed in occupied Germany just after WW2 when he sees a painting of a beautiful young girl called Hildegard in a London art gallery. While viewing the painting he is approached by an old man, Professor Franz Menzel, who escaped from Nazi Germany in the 1930s leaving his family behind and claims to be the young girl's father. Major Lawrence agrees to search for the young girl when he returns to Germany.

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