So You Don't Know Korff Yet?
So You Don't Know Korff Yet? | |
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Directed by | Fritz Holl |
Written by | Jacob Geis Peter Francke |
Produced by | Hans Tost |
Starring | Heinz Rühmann Victor Janson Fritz Rasp |
Cinematography | Georg Bruckbauer |
Edited by | Gottlieb Madl |
Music by | Michael Jary |
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Distributed by | Terra Film |
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Running time | 95 minutes |
Country | Germany |
Language | German |
So You Don't Know Korff Yet? (German: Nanu, Sie kennen Korff noch nicht?) is a 1938 German comedy crime film directed by Fritz Holl and starring Heinz Rühmann, Victor Janson and Franz Schafheitlin.[1] It was shot at the Babelsberg Studios in Berlin and on location in Mecklenburg and Holland. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Alfred Bütow and Willi Herrmann. It was produced and distributed by Terra Film, one of the leading film companies in Nazi Germany.
Synopsis
[edit]Unwittingly, the celebrated crime novelist Niels Korff has included details in his latest book that closely match the activities of a notorious pair of American criminals. They plan to assassinate him in Amsterdam, while also stealing a valuable Rubens painting. Yet all there schemes to kill him go wrong and he is ultimately able to turn the tables on them.
Cast
[edit]- Heinz Rühmann as Niels Korff
- Victor Janson as Dufour
- Franz Schafheitlin as Morton
- Fritz Rasp as Kelley
- Jakob Tiedtke as Vermeylen
- Senta Foltin as Dortje
- Agnes Straub as Philippine Schimmelpennick
- Will Dohm as van Gaalen
- Karl Meixner as Timor
- Viktor Bell as Jim
- Günther Lüders as Inspizient im 'Trocadero'
- Rudolf Platte as Regisseur im 'Trocadero'
- Hubert von Meyerinck as Reporter Droste
- Josefine Dora as Wirtschafterin Antje
- Oskar Höcker as Polizeikommissar
References
[edit]Bibliography
[edit]- Klaus, Ulrich J. Deutsche Tonfilme: Jahrgang 1938. Klaus-Archiv, 1988.
External links
[edit]- 1938 films
- Films of Nazi Germany
- 1930s crime comedy films
- German crime comedy films
- 1930s German-language films
- German black-and-white films
- 1938 comedy films
- 1930s German films
- Terra Film films
- Films shot at Babelsberg Studios
- Films shot in Berlin
- Films shot in Amsterdam
- Films set in Amsterdam
- Films scored by Michael Jary
- 1930s German film stubs
- Crime comedy film stubs