The thing with Styx

Movie
Original title	The thing with Styx
Country of production	German Empire
original language	German
Publishing year	1942
length	98 minutes
Age rating	FSK 12
Rod
Director	Karl Anton
script	Curt J. Brown
production	Karl Anton for Tobis-Filmkunst GmbH (Berlin)
music	Harald Boehmelt
camera	Georg Bruckbauer
cut	Lena Neumann
occupation
Laura Solari : Julia Sandor Viktor de Kowa : Rittmeister Styx Margit Symo : dancer Ariane Will Dohm : Basilio Hans Leibelt : Consul Sandor Harald Paulsen : Dr. Bonnett Theodor Loos : Lenski Franz Weber : Cyrill Werner Scharf : Tschelebi Walter Steinbeck : Jacques Stone Curt Lucas : Jules Stone Franz Zimmermann : Dodley Kurt Seifert : Eugene Karl Meixner : Courier Leo Peukert : Duchan Hans Stiebner : Landlord Louis Ralph : box closers Wilhelm Bendow : administrator of the legation Kurt Mikulski : Opera porter

The Styx Thing is a crime film and drama by the director Karl Anton from 1942. The literary film adaptation is based on the novel Rittmeister Styx by the writer Georg Mühlen-Schulte . In the main role , Viktor de Kowa plays the attaché Styx, who is accused of murder.

action

Rittmeister Styx, a faithful and loyal embassy attaché with body and soul, performs his services in a consulate . One day his office experiences an increase in staff: the dancer Ariane, who has become financially completely destitute, and the actual consul Sandor, who, however, seems to be a man with a split personality, as he tries to get Styx into his questionable business, which has nothing to do with his actual business, are assigned Task as consul have to do with.

When Styx refuses to participate in activities that do not correspond to his official mandate, he inevitably falls into the grudge of consul Sandor. Styx is charged with a constructed murder with which the consul tries to get Styx out of the way. But the consul didn't count on the dedicated dancer Ariane, who knows the truth about the murder and helps Styx escape the prosecution.

Styx decides to work with Ariane to bring the shady machinations of his superior to the public at a summer party organized by the consulate.

Release dates and different film titles

The film premiered on April 1, 1942 in Vienna . It was shown for the first time in Germany on April 30, 1942. Further publication dates were November 2, 1942 in Denmark (there under the title Skandale i Konsulatet ), May 22, 1943 in Sweden (under the title Den mystiske Herr Styx ) and February 13, 1944 in Finland (under the title Styxin arvoitus ). In Italy it was shown under the title L'affare Styx and in the Netherlands under the title Het geval Styx . In the postwar period, he came under the title Who loves home in the rental .

Production notes

Filming began on November 1, 1941 and ended in November of the same year. Eugen Klagemann worked as a still photographer. Hanns H. Kuhnert was responsible for the film construction together with Franz Koehn . The musical template comes from the pen of Giacomo Puccini , from his aria from the opera Madame Butterfly . The vocal parts are from Herbert Ernst Groh , Walther Ludwig and Margherita Perras.

Film censorship

The Nazi regime checked the film for any content that might be detrimental to the regime and, with decision B.56897, imposed a youth ban on it on March 13, 1942 within the framework of the then usual film censorship .

Reviews

"Dusty, but humorous conversation with gentle tension."

- Lexicon of international film

See also

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

Web links

• The thing with Styx in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• The thing with Styx at filmstarts.de
• The thing with Styx at murnau-stiftung.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The thing with Styx (1942) - Release Info - IMDb. In: imdb.com. Accessed July 31, 2015 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b} The thing with Styx. In: filmportal.de. Retrieved July 31, 2015 . 
3. ↑ The thing with Styx. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .