Constable Studer

Constable Studer
Directed by	Leopold Lindtberg
Written by	Friedrich Glauser (novel) Horst Budjuhn Kurt Guggenheim Richard Schweizer
Produced by	Lazar Wechsler
Starring	Heinrich Gretler Adolf Manz Anne-Marie Blanc
Cinematography	Emil Berna
Edited by	Käthe Mey
Music by	Robert Blum
Production company	Praesens-Film
Distributed by	Praesens-Film
Release date	13 October 1939
Running time	112 minutes
Country	Switzerland
Language	Swiss German

Constable Studer (German: Wachtmeister Studer) is a 1939 Swiss crime film directed by Leopold Lindtberg and starring Heinrich Gretler, Adolf Manz and Anne-Marie Blanc. The film is based on a novel by Friedrich Glauser. It was followed by a sequel Madness Rules in 1947 with Gretler reprising his role.

It was shot at the Rosenhof Studios in Zurich over the summer of 1939.

Synopsis

A policeman is not convinced that the prime suspect in a murder case is realty guilty and so decides to reinvestigate the case, despite the lack of co-operation from locals.

Cast

• Heinrich Gretler as Wachtmeister Jakob Studer / Constable Jakob Studer
• Adolf Manz as Bürgermeister Aeschbacher / Mayor Aeschbacher
• Bertha Danegger as Mutter Aeschbacher / Mother Aeschbacher
• Armin Schweizer as Gottlieb Ellenberger
• Ellen Widmann as Anastasia Witschi
• Robert Trösch as Armin Witschi
• Anne-Marie Blanc as Sonja Witschi
• Robert Bichler as Erwin Schlumpf
• Hans Kaes as Polizist Murmann / Police officer Murmann
• Zarli Carigiet as Schreier
• Rudolf Bernhard as Schwomm
• Sigfrit Steiner as Untersuchungsricher Steffen / Examining magistrate Steffen
• Alfred Lucca as Gerber
• Rita Liechti as Serviertochter
• Mathilde Danegger as Frau Hofmann
• Willi Ackermann
• Lukas Ammann
• Emil Gerber
• Carlo Bertozza
• Arnold Müdespacher

Bibliography

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

External links

• Constable Studer at IMDb