Fraulein Doktor
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Alberto Lattuada
Suzy Kendall
Kenneth More
Capucine
James Booth
Alexander Knox
Film Details
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Synopsis
One night during World War I a German U-boat lands three people in the Orkney Islands. When two are captured, Colonel Foreman of British intelligence tricks one of them, Meyer, into revealing that the third person landed was an infamous German spy known as Fraulein Doktor, whose mission is to kill British Field Marshal Lord Kitchener. Fraulein Doktor learns that the field marshal is aboard the H.M.S. Hampshire , and the Germans sink the ship, killing Kitchener and the 700 men aboard. Her mission completed, Fraulein Doktor injects herself with morphine. Meyer, meanwhile, has told Foreman about another of Fraulein Doktor's deeds: disguised as a housemaid, she won the confidence of Dr. Saforet, the French lesbian inventor of a powerful poison gas formula; murdered her; and stole the formula for the Germans. Colonel Foreman sends Meyer back to Germany as a counterspy, and Colonel Mathesius, the German spy chief, having discovered the plan, encourages Meyer to kill Fraulein Doktor. Although Meyer is attracted to the beautiful spy, he carries out his assignment and returns to England. The Fraulein's "death," however, has been staged by the Germans, and she is already at work on a two-fold suicidal mission. She poses as a Spanish aristocrat and dupes the Belgian ambassador into allowing her to organize a Red Cross train to aid wounded Allies at the front; then smuggles aboard four spies to steal Allied offensive plans from a Belgian chateau. Meanwhile, Colonel Foreman has begun to suspect that Fraulein Doktor is not dead, and he takes Meyer along with him to investigate the hospital train. Though Meyer recognizes Fraulein Doktor in her nurse's uniform, he has become too infatuated to expose her, and her mission is a success. The Germans make use of the stolen plans to launch a counterattack against the Allies employing the insidious poison gas. After the German victory Colonel Foreman and Meyer arrive at a railway station where Fraulein Doktor is treating wounded soldiers. Foreman realizes that he has found the infamous spy, but he is shot dead by Meyer, who, in turn, is killed by a German patrol. Fraulein Doktor laughs maniacally and then breaks into sobs. Meyer's death, her addiction to morphine, and her fanatical patriotism have taken a heavy toll.
Director
Alberto Lattuada
Cast
Suzy Kendall
Kenneth More
Capucine
James Booth
Alexander Knox
Nigel Green
Roberto Bisacco
Malcolm Ingram
Giancarlo Giannini
Mario Novelli
Kenneth Poitevin
Bernard De Vries
Ralph Nossek
Michael Elphick
Olivera Vuco
Andreina Paul
Silvia Monti
Virginia Bell
Colin Tapley
Gérard Herter
Walter Williams
James Mishler
John Atkinson
Neale Stainton
John Webb
Joan Geary
Aca Stojkovic
Mavid Popovic
Janez Vrhovec
Bata Paskaljevic
Zoran Longinovic
Du¿an Bulajic
Miki Micovic
Du¿an Djuric
Maggie Mcgrath
Gyorgy Nagyajtay
Andreas Voutsinas
Crew
Marcello Aliprandi
Nino Baragli
Enzo Bulgarelli
Mario Chiari
Duilio Coletti
Harry A. L. Craig
Dino De Laurentiis
Maria De Matteis
Du¿an Dimitrijevic
Milutin Dimitrijevic
Enzo Eusepi
Otello Fava
Dragan Grozdanovic
Marija Kordic
Aleksandar Krstic
Luigi Kuveiller
Luigi Lardani
Alberto Lattuada
Bianca Lattuada
Renata Magnanti
Stanley Mann
Ennio Morricone
Alfredo Nicolai
Bruno Nicolai
Vittoriano Petrilli
Vittoriano Petrilli
Du¿an Piros
Leopoldo Savona
Djordje Vujovic
Walter Williams
Stanislava Zaric
Film Details
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Notes
Reportedly inspired by the exploits of Anna Maria Lesser. Location scenes filmed in Yugoslavia and Hungary. Released in Yugoslavia in February 1969 as Gospodjica Doktor-¿pijunka bez imena. Rome opening: 1969 as Fräulein Doktor. U. S. prerelease titles: Nameless and The Betrayal.
Miscellaneous Notes
Released in United States Spring April 1969
Released in United States Spring April 1969
