Sergeant Berry

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Movie
Original title Sergeant Berry
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1938
length 114 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Herbert Selpin
script CH Diller
Walter Wassermann
Rudolf Klein-Rogge (dialogues)
production Franz Vogel
Robert Wuellner for Euphono-Film, Berlin, on behalf of Tobis
music Hans Sommer
camera Franz Koch
cut Lena Neumann
occupation

Sergeant Berry is a 1938 German police and adventure film with Hans Albers in the title role. Directed by Herbert Selpin .

action

Chicago , in the wild 30's. Sergeant Mecki Berry has been doing his job badly so far, showing little ambition in hunting gangsters, although there is more than enough to do in this regard in this city. More by accident than intended, he gets in the way of the notorious gang boss Duffy and accidentally shoots him. In no time at all, word of this “feat” got around, and Sergeant Berry was quickly proclaimed Chicago's new hero by the press and radio.

His boss, Colonel Turner, promoted him to inspector, and he is expected to do more “brilliant deeds” in the future. So his supervisor sends him to the American-Mexican border to “clean up” other gangsters there who have committed themselves to the lucrative drug trade and smuggling. Very unwillingly, Berry obeys the order “from above” and goes to the remote, restless border town populated by all sorts of light-shy rabble. There, disguised as an engineer, he soon gets caught between all the chairs. Surrounded by corrupt border officials and choleric hacienderos, coarse cowboys and fiery señoritas, he finally has his hands full to bring order to this lawless border region.

Once again, the lucky coincidence helps him when, between all his big and small adventures, he arrests the dark drug lord en passant and also arrests an internationally sought-after gangster. In addition, Sergeant Berry with his heart-refreshing warrior charm can also conquer the heart of the hot-blooded and beautiful Ramona de Garcia, whose father, a large landowner, is saved from a murder plot by Berry's courageous intervention.

Production notes

The film was based on the novel of the same name by Robert Arden ; filming took place between July and October 1938.

Sergeant Berry premiered on December 22nd, 1938 in Munich . The Berlin premiere took place on January 26, 1939.

Until November 1942, the film was shown in the Netherlands , Denmark , Hungary , Sweden , France and Finland .

The film composer Hans Sommer , who was married to a Jew, was only allowed to work for Sergeant Berry with a special permit. It was to be summer's last German film. He and his wife left Germany a few months later and emigrated to the USA.

Gerd Höst, also Gerd Høst , was a Norwegian actress and writer who, in order to avoid irritation in Germany due to her male first name, was also listed under the stage name Gerda Höchst by Sergeant Berry .

With Mohamed Husen and Louis Brody , the two most famous small colored actors of the Third Reich played in one and the same film.

Fritz Maurischat designed the buildings for Sergeant Berry , Paul Markwitz and Artur Schwarz carried them out. The costumes come from the hand of Herbert Ploberger .

Reviews

"A film that doesn't take anything seriously, makes fun of the good old cinema and just wants to be taken funny!"; This is the conclusion of the program for Sergeant Berry .

The Lexicon of International Films wrote: "A fun and action-packed crime and western parody."

Kay Weniger 's 'Between Stage and Barracks' found that Sergeant Berry was “a turbulent and at times ironic, but always exciting action cinema that was clearly based on American models.”

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Illustrierter Film-Kurier, No. 2887
  2. Klaus Brüne (Red.): Lexikon des Internationale Films, Volume 7, S. 3411. Reinbek near Hamburg 1987
  3. Kay Less : Between the stage and the barracks. Lexicon of persecuted theater, film and music artists from 1933 to 1945 . With a foreword by Paul Spiegel . Metropol, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-938690-10-9 , p. 432.