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Country:
Germany
Media: Black/White
Sound: Mono
Length: 2439 Meters
Duration: 89 Minutes
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This film is shot in EFA-Studio Berlin-Halensee starting in May 1931. On
August 26th 1931, the Censors (Filmprüfstelle Berlin)
authorize it for projection (document: B. 29694,
Jv). The premier
showing
of this movie takes
place in Berlin on September 1st 1931 at the Tauentzien-Palast.
In
his review
appearing in Film-Kurier on
September 2nd 1931,
Georg Herzberg
writes: "Positive results are the numerous gags around
Siegfried Arno who, as a phony sailor (as a result of circumstances that
elude the viewer's under-standing), gets arrested and suffers much
duress at the hands of several non-commissioned officers - sorry here
they are called "Maat" . Sigi Arno manages to get through every
situation that the three writers who produced the script for this film,
impose upon him: sleeper car terror, clerk haunted by bad luck, insolent
and insistent prisoner, as a civilian, in uniform, in pajamas, in drag,
he always gets laughs. He rounds the edges of each and every situation
through the lovely legerity of his gestures. In this film he outpaces
the script writers and the director by several giant steps. Are the
baker's dozen funny events sufficient? Emo, the director and Pasternak
the production director apparently were so smitten by the happenings
around Siegfired Arno that they didn't keep an eye open for anything
else. The final scene is quiet amusing: Arno plays the captain in a
fairground singing about the life of a sailor." |
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Cast
Siegfried Arno
Ursula Grabley
Fritz Schulz
Hans Wassmann
Ernest Sennesch
Gustl Stark-Gstettenbaur
Hugo Fischer-Köppe
Elfriede Jerra
Else Reval
Julia Serda-Junkermann
Hans Junkermann
Max Ehrlich
Albert Paulig
Fritz Hofbauer
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...Sebaldus Schlank
...Maria
...Harry
...Mr. Müller
...Bredel, Müller's Factotum
...Gustl, Müller's Apprentice
..."Maat"
...Woman in Sleeper Car
...Other Woman in Sleeper Car
...Aunt Irene
...Uncle Eduard
...Mr. Ackermann
...Headwaiter
...Second "Maat" |
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Directed by E. W.
Emo
Written by Bobby E.
Lüthge, Karl Noti & Herbert Rosenfeld, based on an idea from Herbert
Rosenfeld
Produced by
Alberto Giacolone, & Ferruccio Biancini (GLT )
Production direction by Joe Pasternak
Cinematography by Franz Planer & Otto Schneider (STF)
Filming
directed by Robert Leistenschneider
Filming
directed by Willy Zeunert
Film
editing by Paul Ostermayr
Stage sets built by Gustav A. Knauer
Costumes
by Robert Stritzke (MAS) & Willi Grabow
Sound by
Carlo Paganini
Music by Willy
Meisel
Words to
music by Kurt Schwabach
Mucical
arrangements by Erwin von Platen
Songs
titles are The Stork goes on Strike, Boy is that a Business, Your Face is
like a Poem (foxtrot)
Production Company was Deutsche Universal Film AG
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