Tugboat M 17

Tugboat M 17
Directed by	Heinrich George Werner Hochbaum
Written by	Willy Döll
Starring	Heinrich George Berta Drews Betty Amann
Cinematography	A.O. Weitzenberg
Edited by	Ella Stein
Music by	Will Meisel Alex Stone
Production company	Orbis-Film
Release date	19 April 1933
Running time	78 minutes
Country	Germany
Language	German

Tugboat M 17 (German: Schleppzug M 17) is a 1933 German drama film directed by Heinrich George and Werner Hochbaum and starring Heinrich George, Berta Drews and Betty Amann. George, a prominent actor, directed much of the film before it was finished by Hochbaum. Location filming took place on the Ruppiner See. It portrays life on a German boat on Germany's inland waterways in the vicinity of Berlin.

It premiered at the Ufa-Palast am Zoo on 19 April 1933.

Cast

• Heinrich George as Henner, der Schiffer
• Berta Drews as Marie, seine Frau
• Joachim Streubel as Franz, sein Kind
• Betty Amann as Gescha
• Wilfried Seyferth as Jakob
• Maria Schanda as Eine Sängerin
• Robert Müller as Jakobs Vater
• Kurt Getke as Piet
• Friedrich Ettel as Orje
• Hansjoachim Büttner as Karl
• Walter Steiner as Ein Kommerzienrat
• Alexander Jonas as Ein Wirt

Bibliography

• Bock, Hans-Michael & Bergfelder, Tim. The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema. Berghahn Books, 2009.

External links

• Tugboat M 17 at IMDb
• Schleppzug M 17 Full movie at the Deutsche Filmothek