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Strafsache van Geldern

Deutschland 1932 Spielfilm

Case Van Geldern

Lawyer Paulus van Geldern has bad luck in gambling and in love. His wife Martha, who runs a successful fashion business, lives separately from him and his gambling addiction has driven Paulus to the brink of ruin. In order to pay off his debts, he meets Martha one evening in her apartment. Until now she has always brusquely refused his requests for a loan. But soon the housekeeper Minna hears loud screams and when she comes into the room she sees Paul on the floor, bent over the dead Martha. A valuable piece of jewellery is also missing. He is arrested immediately. Then the criminal Willi Vogel hears about the story in prison and remembers that the lawyer helped him to get a substantial mitigation of punishment. He wants to break out and prove that van Geldern did not commit the murder. But he dies in a car chase and only at the very last minute does it come to light in court that Nikolaus Bavaritse, a creditor of van Geldern's, is the real murderer and jewel thief.
 

Credits

Director

  • Willi Wolff

Screenplay

  • W. Solsky
  • Hans Hyan

Director of photography

  • Emil Schünemann

Editing

  • Carl Otto Bartning

Music

  • Alfred Strasser
  • Joe Hajos (Lieder)

Cast

  • Paul Richter
    van Geldern
  • Ellen Richter
    Martha van Geldern
  • Lucie Höflich
    Minna Müller
  • Fritz Kampers
    Willi Vogel
  • Elga Brink
    Greta von Heerström
  • Grigori Chmara
    Fürst Nikolaus Bavaritse
  • Hilde Hildebrand
    Lula de la Rocca
  • Harry Hardt
    Gert Roßmann
  • Olly Gebauer
    Loni Behrend
  • Friedrich Kayßler

Production company

  • Ellen Richter-Tonfilm GmbH (Berlin)

Alle Credits

Director

  • Willi Wolff

Screenplay

  • W. Solsky
  • Hans Hyan

Director of photography

  • Emil Schünemann

Production design

  • Hans Sohnle
  • Otto Erdmann

Editing

  • Carl Otto Bartning

Sound

  • Eugen Hrich

Music

  • Alfred Strasser
  • Joe Hajos (Lieder)

Cast

  • Paul Richter
    van Geldern
  • Ellen Richter
    Martha van Geldern
  • Lucie Höflich
    Minna Müller
  • Fritz Kampers
    Willi Vogel
  • Elga Brink
    Greta von Heerström
  • Grigori Chmara
    Fürst Nikolaus Bavaritse
  • Hilde Hildebrand
    Lula de la Rocca
  • Harry Hardt
    Gert Roßmann
  • Olly Gebauer
    Loni Behrend
  • Friedrich Kayßler
  • Walter Steinbeck
  • Ernst Dumcke
  • Ernst Busch
  • Julius Falkenstein
  • Wladimir Sokoloff
  • Kurt Lilien
  • Paul Biensfeldt
  • Wolfgang Zilzer
  • Ernst Behmer
  • Curt Fuß
  • Fritz Greiner
  • Else Reval
  • Paul Westermeier

Production company

  • Ellen Richter-Tonfilm GmbH (Berlin)
Duration:
85 min
Format:
35mm, 1:1,37
Video/Audio:
s/w, Tobis-Klangfilm
Censorship/Age rating:

Zensur (DE): 19.08.1932

Screening:

Uraufführung (DE): 22.08.1932

Titles

Additional titles
  • Originaltitel (DE) Strafsache van Geldern
  • Weiterer Titel (DE) Willi Vogel, der Ausbrecherkönig

Versions

Original

Duration:
85 min
Format:
35mm, 1:1,37
Video/Audio:
s/w, Tobis-Klangfilm
Censorship/Age rating:

Zensur (DE): 19.08.1932

Screening:

Uraufführung (DE): 22.08.1932

Digitalisierte Fassung

Duration:
80 min
Format:
DCP, 1:1,375
Video/Audio:
s/w, Mono
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