The Man in Search of His Murderer
1931 film
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| German | Der Mann, der seinen Mörder sucht |
| Directed by | Robert Siodmak |
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| Produced by | Erich Pommer |
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| Edited by | Viktor Gertler |
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Production company | UFA |
| Distributed by | UFA |
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Running time | 97 minutes |
| Country | Germany |
| Language | German |
The Man in Search of His Murderer (German: Der Mann, der seinen Mörder sucht) is a 1931 German comedy film directed by Robert Siodmak and starring Heinz Rühmann, Lien Deyers and Hans Leibelt.[1] The film is partially lost; of the original 9 acts, only five (50 minutes) remain. It was one of the early leading roles for upcoming German star Heinz Rühmann. Co-writer Billy Wilder was at the beginning of his long career. It was shot at the Babelsberg Studios in Berlin and premiered at the city's Gloria-Palast. The film's sets were designed by the art director Robert Herlth and Walter Röhrig. It was remade in 1952 as You Only Live Once.
Cast
- Heinz Rühmann as Hans Herfort
- Lien Deyers as Kitty
- Raimund Janitschek as Otto Kuttlapp
- Hans Leibelt as Adamowski
- Hermann Speelmans as Jim
- Friedrich Hollaender as Chairman of 'Weisse Weste'
- Gerhard Bienert as Policeman
- Eugen Boral as Member of 'Weisse Weste'
- Otti Dietze as Innkeeper
- Victor Palfi as Hans' Friend
- Greta Keller as Singer
- Franz Fiedler
- Eberhard Mack
- Erik Schuetz
- Roland Varno
- Wolfgang von Waltershausen
- Hermann Blaß
- Fritz Odemar
See also
- Tribulations of a Chinaman in China (novel by Jules Verne, 1879)
- Flirting with Fate (1916)
- The Whistler (1944)
- You Only Live Once (1952)
- Five Days (1954)
- Up to His Ears (1965)
- Tulips (1981)
- I Hired a Contract Killer (1990)
- Bulworth (1998)
- Shut Up and Shoot Me (2005)
References
- ^ Hardt p. 239
Bibliography
- Hardt, Ursula (1996). From Caligari to California: Erich Pommer's Life in the International Film Wars. Berghahn Books. ISBN 978-1-57181-930-7.
- Kreimeier, Klaus (1999). The Ufa Story: A History of Germany's Greatest Film Company, 1918–1945. University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-22069-0.
External links
- The Man in Search of His Murderer at IMDb
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Films directed by Robert Siodmak
1930–1939
- People on Sunday (1930)
- Farewell (1930)
- Inquest (1931)
- About an Inquest (1931, MLV)
- The Man in Search of His Murderer (1931)
- Storms of Passion (1932)
- Quick (1932)
- The Burning Secret (1933)
- The Weaker Sex (1933)
- The Crisis is Over (1934)
- La Vie parisienne (1936)
- Parisian Life (1936)
- The Great Refrain (1936)
- Compliments of Mister Flow (1936)
- White Cargo (1937)
- Mollenard (1938)
- The Corsican Brothers (1939)
- Personal Column (1939)
1941–1951
- West Point Widow (1941)
- Fly-by-Night (1942)
- The Night Before the Divorce (1942)
- My Heart Belongs to Daddy (1942)
- Someone to Remember (1943)
- Son of Dracula (1943)
- Phantom Lady (1944)
- Cobra Woman (1944)
- Christmas Holiday (1944)
- The Suspect (1944)
- The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry (1945)
- The Spiral Staircase (1946)
- The Killers (1946)
- The Dark Mirror (1946)
- Time Out of Mind (1947)
- Cry of the City (1948)
- Criss Cross (1949)
- The Great Sinner (1949)
- The File on Thelma Jordon (1950)
- Deported (1950)
- The Whistle at Eaton Falls (1951)
1952–1969
- The Crimson Pirate (1952)
- Flesh and the Woman (1954)
- Die Ratten (1955)
- My Father, the Actor (1956)
- The Devil Strikes at Night (1957)
- Dorothea Angermann (1959)
- Magnificent Sinner (1959)
- The Rough and the Smooth (1959)
- My Schoolfriend (1960)
- The Nina B. Affair (1961)
- Escape from East Berlin (1962)
- The Shoot (1964)
- The Treasure of the Aztecs (1965)
- The Pyramid of the Sun God (1965)
- Custer of the West (1967)
- Kampf um Rom (1968)
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