The man who sold himself

Movie
Original title	The man who sold himself
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Publishing year	1959
length	103 minutes
Age rating	FSK 6
Rod
Director	Josef von Báky
script	Erich Kuby
production	Hans Abich and Rolf Thiele for Film construction GmbH (Göttingen)
music	Georg Haentzschel
camera	Friedl Behn-Grund
cut	Caspar van den Berg
occupation
Hildegard Knef : Martina Schilling Hansjörg Felmy : Niko Jost Antje Weisgerber : Ms. Sending Kurt Ehrhardt : Carl Sending Katharina Matz : Eva Jost Ernst Schröder : Münchmann Fritz Tillmann : Dr. Shilling Fritz Schmiedel : Anton Klee Ruth caretaker : Sending secretary Ruth Grossi : Lo Hermann Hans Paetsch : Steinmaker Erwin Linder : Public Prosecutor Karl Georg Saebisch : Lawyer Longinus Günther Jerschke : Dr. Zerbst Karl-Heinz Kreienbaum : Detective Inspector Droehnlein Walter Grüters : Minister Ploesch Hans Leibelt : Mayor Karl Kramer : Liqueur manufacturer Kahler Bob Iller : Textile manufacturer Rissner Reinhold Nietschmann : Bentheim department store owner Robert Meyn : Mr. Stückli Hans Timerding : Head Waiter Berger Heinz Piper : Hotel porter Jürgen Graf : TV reporter

The Man Who Sells is a German crime film by the Hungarian director Josef von Báky from 1959. The film adaptation is based on an idea by Wolf Neumeister and Olaf Herfeldt. Hansjörg Felmy embodies the reporter Niko Jost in the main role .

action

The ambitious reporter Niko Jost is working on his series of articles Black Market and White Vests , which is marketed very successfully. As part of his research, he uncovered the dark past of a nouveau riche hotelier and businessman who, it turns out, has been wrongly accused of murder. Thrown into prison and cornered, the wrongly accused suffers a heart attack and dies. Only then do the true circumstances of the murder come to light.

Production notes

The film was shot in the Real-Film Studio in Hamburg's Wandsbek district . Ottokar Runze assisted Josef von Báky in directing. Erich Kettelhut was responsible for the film construction together with Johannes Ott .

The man who sold was on March 12, 1959 Kino Regina in Hannover premiered . It was first broadcast on television on March 2, 1964 on ARD .

Reviews

The supraregional weekly newspaper Die Zeit attested some of the actors' “fascinating” achievements, but complained, among other things, of the clichéd portrayal and the lack of detail of the professions shown, such as the newspaper publisher who is only interested in making a profit, or the officials and ministers who are all shown as not very witty.

Web links

• The man who sold the Internet Movie Database (English)
• The man who sold himself at Cinema
• The man who sold himself at Moviepilot

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The man who sells himself. Illustrated Film Week 1926, accessed on May 10, 2020 . 
2. ↑ Hans Abich - producer, publicist . In: CineGraph - Lexicon for German-Language Film , Lg. 20, F 7
3. ↑ The man who sold himself. In: filmportal.de. Retrieved August 27, 2015 . 
4. ^ The man who sold himself - DIE ZEIT Archive - Edition 12/1959. In: zeit.de. Retrieved August 27, 2015 .