Robert and Bertram (1939 film)
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| Directed by | Hans Heinz Zerlett |
| Written by | Gustav Raeder (play) Hans Heinz Zerlett |
| Produced by | Helmut Schreiber |
| Starring | Rudi Godden Kurt Seifert Carla Rust Fritz Kampers |
| Cinematography | Friedl Behn-Grund |
| Edited by | Ella Ensink |
| Music by | Leo Leux |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Tobis Film |
Release date | 7 July 1939 |
| Country | Germany |
| Language | German |
Robert and Bertram (German: Robert und Bertram) is a 1939 German musical comedy film directed by Hans Heinz Zerlett and starring Rudi Godden, Kurt Seifert and Carla Rust. It premiered in Hamburg on 7 July 1939.[1] It was based on the 1856 play Robert and Bertram by Gustav Räder about two wandering vagrants which had been adapted into several film versions including a Polish film of the same title the previous year. It was set in 1839.
It was made by Tobis Film at the company's Johannisthal Studios in Berlin. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Karl Machus and Erich Zander.
It was the only anti-semitic musical comedy released during the Nazi era and the first film since Kristallnacht to focus on Jews as cultural and economic outsiders.[2] In fact the antagonist of this film itself, the Jew Nathan Ipelmeyer is not a cultural and economic outsider, but a very wealthy "Kommerzienrat" (cf. Geheimrat).
Cast
- Rudi Godden as Robert
- Kurt Seifert as Bertram
- Carla Rust as Lenchen
- Fritz Kampers as Strambach, Gefängnisverwalter
- Heinz Schorlemmer as Michael, Strambachs Neffe
- Herbert Hübner as Nathan Ipelmeyer, the Jewish Kommerzienrat
- Tatjana Sais as Isodora Ipelmeyer, his daughter
- Ursula Deinert as a dancer
- Robert Dorsay as Jack, Ipelmeyer's servant
- Erwin Biegel as Fochheimer
- Hans Stiebner as Blank, cop
- Arthur Schröder as Herr Biedermeier
- Willi Schur as a minstrel
- Eva Tinschmann as a minstrel
- Inge van der Straaten as Frau Ipelmeyer
- Friedrich Beug as the chief of the police
- Peter Bosse as Junge beim Ballonaufstieg
- Fred Goebel as a guard
- Harry Gondi as a guard
- Aribert Grimmer as Gendarm
- Otto F. Henning as Minister
- Fritz Hoopts as Flint, cop
- Kurt Keller-Nebri as Mylord beim Empfang Ipelmeyer
- Franz Kossak as 'Dame' von Café Kranzler
- Gustl Kreusch as 'Dame' von Café Kranzler
- Walter Lieck as Dr. Cordvan
- Alfred Maack as innkeeper
- Manfred Meurer as Lakai
- Arnim Münch as a bookkeeper
- Lucie Polzin as Mutter des Jungen
- F.W. Schröder-Schrom as one of Ipelmeyer's guests
- Rudolf Schündler as one of Ipelmeyer's guests
- Gerhard Dammann as Peter
- Claire Glib as a belly dancer
- Kurt Mikulski as Fritz
- Gerti Ober as a girl in the Café Kranzler
- Egon Stief as Mann mit der Kraftmaschine
- Auguste Wanner-Kirsch as Hochzeitgast
- Kurt Zehe as the giant at the fair
References
Bibliography
- O'Brien, Mary-Elizabeth. Nazi Cinema as Enchantment: The Politics of Entertainment in the Third Reich. Camden House, 2006.
- Waldman, Harry. Nazi Films In America, 1933-1942. McFarland, 2008.
External links
- Robert and Bertram at IMDb
- Robert und Bertram is available for free viewing and download at the Internet Archive
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