Das Geheimnis vom Bergsee
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Pietro Ponz lives a happy life in the mountains on the Swiss-Italian border with his mother Lamberta. No one but his mother knows that Pietro is a girl, a deception that Lamberta was forced into by a series of tragedies almost twenty years previously. Not long after her husband Joseph Ponz died, Lamberta also lost her fragile infant son, Pietro. Whilst mourning this double loss, she began an affair with Bolzano, a notorious smuggler. After Bolzano was killed by the customs men, Lamberta gave birth to his child, a little girl that she decided to pass off as her son Pietro, in the hope of securing an inheritance from her husband's wealthy parents. Now that Pietro is fast coming of age, his tutor and grandmother are adamant that he should be sent to a religious school. Pietro escapes from the school and joins a gang of smugglers...
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Edited by Jeanne HumbertShot by Marc FossardScored by Bernard SchuleDesigned by Robert Dumesnil
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20 unique people credited
Top billed cast
Ann Berger
as Lauretta
Howard Vernon
as Borgo - Schmugglerwirt
Marcelle Geniat
as Maria Pons
Harriet Ge Ner
as Pietro
Lil Dagover
as Lamberta Pons
Fredy Scheim
as Gemeindepräsident
Michel Simon
as Bürgermeister (french version)
Michel Barbey
as Calix
Andrews Engelmann
as Gefängnisdirektor
Roger Burckhardt
as Schmuggler
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