The Sinful Village (1940)

Movie
Original title	The sinful village
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Publishing year	1940
length	91 minutes
Rod
Director	Joe Stöckel
script	Max Neal , Joseph Dalman
music	Toni Thoms
camera	Sepp Allgeier , Paul Grupp
cut	Hertha von Hösslin
occupation
Joe Stöckel : Thomas Stangassinger Elise Aulinger : Mrs. Stangassinger Georg Bauer : Sepp Stangassinger Albert Janschek : Toni Stangassinger Josef Eichheim : Korbinian Bachmaier Hansi Knoteck : Vevi Wastl Witt : Vogelhuber Erna Fentsch : Afra Vogelhuber Beppo Brem : Wegscheidbauer Bertl Schultes : Sonnhofer Ludwig Schmid-Wildy : Mayor Julius Frey: Innkeeper Adolf Gondrell : Lawyer Margarete Haagen : Hökerin Maria Stadler : Kuni Ingeborg Hoffmann : Leni Emmy Sourmann : Sonnhoferin Hans Schulz : community servant Vera Complojer : Barbara Veit Erich Teibler : Shepherd boy

The Sinful Village is a German film by director Joe Stöckel from 1940. It is the first film adaptation of the Schwank of the same name by Max Neal . In the remake The Sinful Village (1954) Joe Stöckel played the leading role again.

action

When the sons of the farmer Thomas and his wife Therese Stangassinger, Toni and Sepp, introduce their fiancées to their parents, they believe that they recognize their illegitimate daughters in the chosen ones. Through intrigues, the two now try to break the lovers apart in order to prevent a sibling marriage. Fortunately, in the end it turns out that nothing stands in the way of the double wedding.

See also

• List of German feature films premiered in the German Reich during the Nazi era

literature

• Max Neal : The Man in Purgatory. The sinful village. Peasant comedy in three acts . [Not for sale stage manuscript]. W. Köhler (Rubinverlag), Munich 1925, 95 pp.

Web links

• The sinful village in the Internet Movie Database (English)