Decoy (1934 film)

Decoy
Film poster
Directed by	Hans Steinhoff
Written by	Philipp Lothar Mayring Ludwig von Wohl
Produced by	Karl Ritter
Starring	Jakob Tiedtke Viktor de Kowa Jessie Vihrog
Cinematography	Konstantin Irmen-Tschet
Edited by	Willy Zeyn
Music by	Friedrich Wilhelm Rust
Production company	UFA
Distributed by	UFA
Release date	10 November 1934
Running time	99 minutes
Country	Germany
Language	German

Decoy (German: Lockvogel) is a 1934 German adventure film directed by Hans Steinhoff and starring Jakob Tiedtke, Viktor de Kowa and Jessie Vihrog. A separate French-language version The Decoy was released the following year with a largely different cast.

The film's sets were designed by the art director Artur Günther and Fritz Maurischat . It was shot at the Babelsberg Studios and on location in Hamburg, Turkey and the North Sea.

Synopsis

A young man is commissioned by his jeweler father to take a valuable necklace from Istanbul to Marseille. While on the sea voyage he is targeted by a gang of thieves, using a beautiful woman as a decoy. Fortunately he is eventually assisted by another woman who is secretly in love with him.

Cast

• Jakob Tiedtke as Juwelier Schott
• Viktor de Kowa as Schott junior
• Jessie Vihrog as Sibyl Termeer
• Fritz Rasp as de Groot, ihr Vormund
• Hilde Weissner as Delia Donovan
• Oskar Sima as Makarian
• Paul Westermeier as Robert, Kapitän
• Gerhard Bienert as 1. Offizier an Bord der 'Adrian Termeer'
• Hugo Fischer-Köppe as 2. Offizier an Bord der 'Adrian Termeer'
• Gertrud Wolle as Dame an Bord
• Hans Hermann Schaufuß as Herr an Bord
• Egon Brosig
• Josef Dahmen as Bandit
• Alfred Gerasch as Perser
• Inge Kadon as Perserin
• Sonja Krenzisky as Bumbawa
• Hede Mehrmann as Weisse Tänzerin
• Gustav Püttjer as Matrose
• Louis Ralph as Bandit
• Ernst Rotmund as Kriminallkommisar
• Werner Stock as Matrose

Bibliography

• Bock, Hans-Michael & Bergfelder, Tim. The Concise CineGraph. Encyclopedia of German Cinema. Berghahn Books, 2009.

External links

• Decoy at IMDb