In the Employ of the Secret Service
Appearance
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Directed by | Gustav Ucicky |
Written by | Walter Reisch |
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Cinematography | Carl Hoffmann |
Music by | Werner Schmidt-Boelcke |
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Distributed by | UFA |
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Running time | 106 minutes |
Country | Germany |
Language | German |
In the Employ of the Secret Service (German: Im Geheimdienst) is a 1931 German drama film directed by Gustav Ucicky and starring Brigitte Helm, Willy Fritsch, and Oskar Homolka.[1] It concerns espionage between Germany and Russia during the First World War.
The film's sets were designed by the art directors Robert Herlth and Walter Röhrig. Location shooting took place in Denmark.
Cast
- Brigitte Helm as Vera Lanskaja
- Willy Fritsch as Thomas Higgins
- Oskar Homolka as Lanskoi, generalmajor
- Theodor Loos as Dubbin, hemmelig agent
- Karl Ludwig Diehl as Wasiljeff, kaptajn
- Harry Hardt as Kaulwitz, generalstabsofficer
- Ferdinand Hart as Tomilin
- Tamara Desni as Natascha, hans datter
- Eduard von Winterstein as Chefen for spionagen
- Friedrich Kayßler as Von Bethmann-Hollweg, rigskansler
- Alfred Beierle as Sokaluk, ur- og instrumentmager
- Aenne Goerling
- Margarete Schön as Hans hustru
- Ferdinand Bonn as Dr. Kaempff, præsident for den tyske rigsdag
- Paul Mederow
- Alexander Murski as Ewreinoff, oberst
- Georg H. Schnell as Nikolajewski, generel
- Walter Steinbeck
References
- ^ Bock & Bergfelder p. 536
Bibliography
- Bock, Hans-Michael; Bergfelder, Tim, eds. (2009). The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema. New York: Berghahn Books. ISBN 978-1-57181-655-9.
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