Marriage fraud (film)

Movie
Original title	Marriage fraud
Country of production	German Empire
original language	German
Publishing year	1938
length	90 minutes
Age rating	FSK 0
Rod
Director	Herbert Selpin
script	Fritz Wendhausen
production	ABC-Film GmbH , Berlin
music	Werner Bochmann
camera	Ernst W. Fiedler
cut	Lena Neumann
occupation
Harald Paulsen : Paul Gerber alias A. Häselich Eduard von Winterstein : Franz Buschko Elisabeth Flickenschildt : Anne Buschko Viktoria von Ballasko : Marianne Kurt Waitzmann : Mathias Schröder Heinrich Kalnberg : foster father Zierlein Friedrich Ettel : station master Gerhard Bienert : Railway Assistant Obermeier Hilde Körber : Melitta Doleschal Alfred Maack : Landlord in the station restaurant Fita Benkhoff : Lisbeth Lindemann Ernst Behmer : Waiter Otto Kronburger : prison director Gerda Kuffner : Ms. Niemeyer Berndt Werner : Detective officer Eva Klein-Donath : Dr. Gertrud Behrens Hans Hemes : prison guard Arthur Reinhardt : prison guard

Heiratsschwindler is a crime film by the director Herbert Selpin from 1938. The literary film adaptation is based on the novel Die Rote Mütze by the writer Gertrud von Brockdorff . In the main role, Harald Paulsen embodies the criminally inclined Paul Gerber, who pretends to be a marriage swindler under the name A. Häselich.

action

Marriage swindler Häselich is released from prison after serving his sentence and immediately reverts to his old behavior. He finds his next victim in the shy waitress Melitta Doleschal, to whom he promises her marriage, and at the same time he flirts with the wealthy hotel landlady Lisbeth Lindemann, who sees through his game. When his dizziness is exposed again, while on the run, Häselich is overwhelmed by a railway official, who is the father of a previous victim of Häselich, and handed over to the police.

Release dates and different film titles

The film premiered on February 15, 1938 in Berlin . In Denmark this happened almost a year later, on February 13, 1939 (there under the title Ægteskabssvindleren ). It was first broadcast on German television on December 15, 1982 on NDR . The film was also shown under the different film titles Adventure of a certain Mr. Haeselich , Novel of a Marriage Impostor and The Red Hat .

background

Hans Lehmann ran together with Ludwig Behrends the production . The shooting locations were Lassan and the train station in Drewitz.

Film censorship

The Nazi regime checked the film for any content that might be detrimental to the regime and, with resolution B.47075, imposed a youth ban on it on December 15, 1937 within the framework of the then usual film censorship .

Reviews

"The wooden staged film promptly received the rating" artistically valuable "."

- Lexicon of international film

See also

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

Web links

• Heiratsschwindler in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Marriage swindler at murnau-stiftung.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Marriage swindlers (1938) - Release Info - IMDb. In: imdb.com. Retrieved July 25, 2015 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Fraudulent marriage. (No longer available online.) In: filmportal.de. Archived from the original on September 24, 2015 ; Retrieved July 25, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ^ Marriage swindlers. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .