Casilla sensational trial

Movie
Original title	Casilla sensational trial
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Publishing year	1939
length	53 seconds
Age rating	FSK 12
Rod
Director	Eduard von Borsody
script	Ernst von Salomon, Eduard von Borsody, Robert Büschgens
music	Werner Bochmann
camera	Werner Bohne
cut	Hildegard Grebner
occupation
Heinrich George : Caesar J. Vandegrift, lawyer Jutta Freybe : Jessie Albert Hehn : Peter Roland Dagny Servaes : Sylvia Casilla, Binnie's stepmother Siegfried Schürenberg : James, criminal Richard Häussler : Mr. Adams, public prosecutor Erich Fiedler : Salvini, lawyer Alice Treff : Alma Galliver, Vandergrift's secretary Hans Mierendorff : Corbett, judge Leo Peukert : Pick, General Manager of Pick Pictures Co. Mia Elmenhorst : Pick's secretary Lothar Geist : Pick's office boy Käthe Pontow : Adult Binnie Casilla Lissy Arna : Inez Brown witness, former housemaid at Casilla Renée Stobrawa : Miss Baumann, former nanny Binnies Herbert Weißbach : court spokesman Fredy Walden Ernst Stimmel : court doctor Karl Klüsner : President of the Court of Appeal Carl Jönsson : Official at the appeal interrogation Walter Lieck : BBC reporter Walter Steinweg : radio reporter Valy Arnheim : Ramsay McFarlane, handwriting expert Fritz Eckert : Poisoned Pilot and Jessie's Native Guide Josef Dahmen : Poisoned co-pilot Robert Forsch : Mr. Parker, President of the Guardianship Court Josef Reithofer : French Colonel on the plane Jens von Hagen : Police officer on the arrival of the plane Carl Iban : Moroccan Sheikh on the plane Otz Tollen : Police inspector in court Theo Brandt : Justice officer Josef Kamper : Justice officer Walter Flamm : Bailiff Klaus Pohl : Court usher Hellmuth Berndsen : Spectators in the courtroom Charlotte Kolle : Missionary Sister Willi Rose : Guide in the tourist bus Ernst Rotmund : South American telegraph officer Mohamed Husen : boy on arrival of the ship Angelo Ferrari : seller of the snack bar Egon Stief : Heavy boy from San Francisco Walter Gross Walter Schramm-Duncker

Sensation Trial Casilla is a German film from the Nazi era . It is an anti-US propaganda film . The film is based on a novel by Hans Mahner-Mons .

action

1928: The lawyer Vandegrift flies with his daughter Jessie from Dakar to Casablanca. When the pilot falls ill, prisoner Peter Roland saves their lives. As a thank you Vandegrift wants to stand by Roland in his murder trial.

During the trial it comes to light that Peter only saved the child from his selfish mother Sylvia. When the child is to be brought to court to prove innocence, the search is in vain.

The US judiciary wrongly sentenced the German to death.

production

The film was released in German cinemas on September 22, 1939.

criticism

"Seldom shown: exciting UFA crime thriller that appeared a few weeks before the start of the Second World War."

Web links

• Casilla sensational trial in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Sensation process Casilla at filmportal.de
• Sensational trial of Casilla in the Lexicon of International Films
• Sensation case Casilla in the online film database
• Murnau Foundation

Individual evidence

1. ↑ mdr.de: sensational process Casilla | MDR.DE. Retrieved March 22, 2020 . 
2. ↑ CINEMA online: Casilla sensational trial (1939) - film | cinema.de. Retrieved March 22, 2020 .