Constable Studer
Appearance
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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.[1] 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
References
- ^ Bock & Bergfelder p.169
Bibliography
- Bock, Hans-Michael & Bergfelder, Tim. The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema. Berghahn Books, 2009.