Police spy 77

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Movie
Original title Police spy 77
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1930
length 105 minutes
Rod
Director Willi Wolff
script Ladislaus Vajda
Willi Wolff
production Ellen Richter & Willi Wolff
camera Willy Hameister
Erich Nitzschmann
occupation

and Jaro Fürth , Bruno Ziener , Hermann Boettcher , Lotte Stein , Heinrich Gotho , Paul Günther

Polizeispionin 77 is a German adventure and crime film from 1929 with Ellen Richter in the title role. Richter's husband Willi Wolff directed this late silent film . The story is based on the novel "The Call of the Deep" by Max Uebelhör, published in 1927.

action

Paris in the 1920s. The former dancer and police spy Florida has retired to the country estate of Count Lettorières. One day her former chief of police, Inspector Goron, approaches her and asks Florida to solve a crime in the underworld, which she knows quite well. At the center of the investigation is a gang of thieves who ambush jewelry-clad women in their vehicles, rob them and, as a special punishment, mock them by painting a mustache on the women. Florida's secret underground work brings the police confidante, who is listed under number 77, the acquaintance of the young, attractive Claude Desbarreaux, a confidante of a Florida all-too-well-known, string-pulling crook known as the "beautiful Bébert" . Interestingly enough, Claude is the son of the famous investigating magistrate Debarreaux. As a result of a war trauma in 1914/18 - he was buried in a grenade attack - he no longer knows who he is and lives a double existence as a split personality. Bébert knows this and takes advantage of this fact. Not only does Bébert lead the gang, he also recently committed a murder when one of his girls, whom he was subject to as a pimp, tried to turn away from him.

The police spy 77 absolutely wants to free Claude, who is absolutely upright in her eyes, from the clutches of Bébert. During the day, the examining magistrate's son helped his father track down criminal elements, at night he belongs to these circles himself and can even get some police information for his boss Bébert. Florida wants to end this intolerable situation quickly and lures gang leader Bébert into a trap. In this situation, Bébert even commits murder. Then the police finally snapped: The criminal is arrested and there is a trial. There the co-accused Claude learns that he owes his favorable fate to the help of the Florida police confidant and turns away from his love. Claude is not sentenced; the court ruled that the young man with the two identities should be dealt with by a specialist rather than the police. Bébert, on the other hand, has to be behind bars. Former police spy 77, abandoned by her love, returns to Count Lettorières.

Production notes

Polizeispionin 77 was made from August to September 1929 at several locations in Europe (external shoots in Paris, Antwerp, Brussels, St. Quentin) immediately following on from Die Frau ohne Nerven as well as in the Staaken film studio. The film passed the censorship on September 30, 1929 and was 2,641 meters long, divided into seven acts. The premiere took place on February 13, 1930 in Munich. The Berlin premiere took place on March 14, 1930 in the Alhambra on Kurfürstendamm.

Director Wolff also took over the production management. Walter Reimann designed the film structures.

criticism

In 1930 Georg Herzberg said in the Film-Kurier : “Once again, the Apache life in Paris must serve as the setting for a crime film. (...) Ladislaus Vajda and Willi Wolff, who draw as authors, have turned these many exciting ingredients into a film that is by no means exciting. And Willi Wolff's direction is unimaginative, too clumsy and homely to cast the viewer under the spell of the events. A couple of bar pictures are to be booked as an asset, the actors like the versatile Ellen Richter, an excellent criminal type Ralph Arthur Roberts and Karl Huszar in the role of a dubious innkeeper. "

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