Under the Thousand Lanterns (German: Unter den tausend Laternen) is a 1952 French-West German crime film directed by Erich Engel and starring Michel Auclair, Gisela Trowe, and Hanna Rucker.

[2] It was made by Real Film at the Wandsbek Studios in Hamburg and on location in the city.

The film's sets were designed by Albrecht Becker and Herbert Kirchhoff.

Singer Elisa visits the house of the composer of the new revue she is to star in, only to find his dead body.

Suspicions fall on several of the murdered man's colleagues including French musician Michel Dumas, whose compositions the deceased had been passing off his as his own, as well as on Elisa herself.