Romance in a Minor Key

Romance in a Minor Key
Directed by	Helmut Käutner
Written by	Willy Clever Helmut Käutner Guy de Maupassant (story)
Produced by	Hermann Grund
Starring	Marianne Hoppe Paul Dahlke Ferdinand Marian
Cinematography	Georg Bruckbauer
Edited by	Anneliese Sponholz
Music by	Lothar Brühne Werner Eisbrenner
Production company	Tobis Film
Distributed by	Deutsche Filmvertriebs
Release date	25 June 1943 (1943-06-25)
Running time	98 minutes
Country	Germany
Language	German

Romance in a Minor Key (German: Romanze in Moll) is a 1943 German historical drama film directed by Helmut Käutner and starring Marianne Hoppe, Paul Dahlke, and Ferdinand Marian.

The film's sets were designed by the art directors Otto Erdmann and Franz F. Fürst.

Cast

• Marianne Hoppe as Madeleine
• Paul Dahlke as Madeleine's husband
• Ferdinand Marian as Michael
• Siegfried Breuer as Viktor
• Elisabeth Flickenschildt as Doorkeeper's wife
• Karl Günther as Jeweler
• Eric Helgar as Michael's brother
• Karl Platen as Michael's servant
• Anja Elkoff as Singer
• Walter Lieck as Tall man
• Ernst Legal as Hard-of-hearing man
• Hans Stiebner as Fat man
• Hugo Flink as Banker
• Klaus Pohl as Pawnbroker
• Leo Peukert as Cafe proprietor
• Maria Loja as Wife of cafe proprietor
• Ethel Reschke as Streetwalker
• Karl Etlinger as Branch director
• Ernst Rotmund as Police commissar
• Walter Bechmann as Head waiter
• Hans Parge as Shoe salesman
• Hansi Schuendler as Shoe saleswoman
• Rudolf Kalvius as Physician
• Herbert Weissbach as Elder Musical Director
• Egon Vogel as Florist
• Hanns Waschatko as Head of consistory
• Helmut Käutner as Poet
• Karl Junge-Swinburne
• Hermann Noack
• Elisabeth von Ruets

Bibliography

• Rentschler, Eric (1996). The Ministry of Illusion: Nazi Cinema and Its Afterlife. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-57640-7.

External links

• Romance in a Minor Key at IMDb
• Romance in a Minor Key at filmportal.de/en