About an Inquest

About an Inquest
About an Inquest
	Lobby card
French	Autour d'une enquête
Directed by	Henri Chomette; Robert Siodmak;
Written by	Max Alsberg (play); Ernst Hesse (play); Robert Liebmann; Raoul Ploquin; Henri Chomette;
Produced by	Erich Pommer
Starring	Annabella; Jean Périer; Colette Darfeuil;
Cinematography	Otto Baecker; Konstantin Irmen-Tschet;
Edited by	Viktor Gertler
Production; company	UFA
Distributed by	L'Alliance Cinématographique Européenne
Release date	5 June 1931;
Running time	93 minutes
Country	Germany
Language	French

About an Inquest (Template:Lang-fr) is a 1931 German crime film directed by Henri Chomette and Robert Siodmak and starring Annabella, Jean Périer and Colette Darfeuil.^[1] It was produced by UFA, as the French-language version of the studio's film Inquest. Such multiple-language versions were common in the early years of sound before dubbing became widespread.

It was shot at the Babelsberg Studios in Berlin. The film's sets were designed by the art director Erich Kettelhut.

Cast

Annabella as Greta Bienert
Jean Périer as the judge Conrad Bienert
Colette Darfeuil as Mella Zier
Florelle as Erna Kabisch
Pierre Richard-Willm as Paul Brent
Gaston Modot as Baumann, detective
Jacques Maury as Walter Binert
Paul Ollivier as old Scherr
Robert Ancelin as Klatte
Bill Bocket [fr] as concierge Zühlke
Pierre Franck as Brann
Willy Rozier
Théo Tony
Laila Bensedira as Singer

References

^ Alpi, Deborah Lazaroff (1998). Robert Siodmak: A Biography, with Critical Analyses of His Films Noirs and a Filmography of All His Works. Jefferson, NC: McFarland. p. 41. ASIN B01N0VEGFI. ISBN 0786404892.

External links

About an Inquest at IMDb

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[1] Alpi, Deborah Lazaroff (1998). Robert Siodmak: A Biography, with Critical Analyses of His Films Noirs and a Filmography of All His Works. Jefferson, NC: McFarland. p. 41. ASIN B01N0VEGFI. ISBN 0786404892.

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Europe 1930–1939	People on Sunday (1930) Farewell (1930) Inquest (1931) About an Inquest (1931, MLV) The Man in Search of His Murderer (1931) Storms of Passion (1932) Quick (1932) The Burning Secret (1933) The Weaker Sex (1933) The Crisis is Over (1934) La Vie parisienne (1936) Parisian Life (1936) The Great Refrain (1936) Compliments of Mister Flow (1936) White Cargo (1937) Mollenard (1938) The Corsican Brothers (1939) Personal Column (1939)
Hollywood 1941–1951	West Point Widow (1941) Fly-by-Night (1942) The Night Before the Divorce (1942) My Heart Belongs to Daddy (1942) Someone to Remember (1943) Son of Dracula (1943) Phantom Lady (1944) Cobra Woman (1944) Christmas Holiday (1944) The Suspect (1944) The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry (1945) The Spiral Staircase (1946) The Killers (1946) The Dark Mirror (1946) Time Out of Mind (1947) Cry of the City (1948) Criss Cross (1949) The Great Sinner (1949) The File on Thelma Jordon (1950) Deported (1950) The Whistle at Eaton Falls (1951)
Europe 1952–1969	The Crimson Pirate (1952) Flesh and the Woman (1954) Die Ratten (1955) My Father, the Actor (1956) The Devil Strikes at Night (1957) Dorothea Angermann (1959) Magnificent Sinner (1959) The Rough and the Smooth (1959) My Schoolfriend (1960) The Nina B. Affair (1961) Escape from East Berlin (1962) The Shoot (1964) The Treasure of the Aztecs (1965) The Pyramid of the Sun God (1965) Custer of the West (1967) Kampf um Rom (1968)