''A Salzburg Comedy'' or ''Little Border Traffic'' (german: Der kleine Grenzverkehr) is a 1943 German
comedy film
A comedy film is a category of film which emphasizes humor. These films are designed to make the audience laugh through amusement. Films in this style traditionally have a happy ending (black comedy being an exception). Comedy is one of the ol ...
directed by
Hans Deppe
Hans Deppe (; 12 November 1897 – 23 September 1969) was a German actor and film director.
Filmography
As director
As actor
References
External links
*
1897 births
1969 deaths
German male film actors
German television dire ...
and starring
Willy Fritsch
Willy Fritsch (27 January 1901 – 13 July 1973) was a German theater and film actor, a popular leading man and character actor from the silent-film era to the early 1960s.
Biography Early life
He was born Wilhelm Egon Fritz Fritsch, the only s ...
,
Hertha Feiler
Hertha Feiler (3 August 1916, Vienna – 1 November 1970, Munich) was an Austrian actress. She was married to the comedian Heinz Rühmann with whom she starred in several films. She was of Jewish descent.
Filmography
* '' Darling of the Sailors ...
and
Heinz Salfner
Heinz Salfner (31 December 1877 – 13 October 1945) was a German stage and film actor. Salfner appeared in more than sixty films during his career. He played the lead in the 1932 crime film '' A Shot at Dawn''.Youngkin p.465
Selected filmography ...
.
[Rentschler p. 380] Erich Kästner
Emil Erich Kästner (; 23 February 1899 – 29 July 1974) was a German writer, poet, screenwriter and satirist, known primarily for his humorous, socially astute poems and for children's books including '' Emil and the Detectives''. He received ...
wrote the screenplay based on one of his own novels. As he had been blacklisted by the
Nazi Party
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he used the
pseudonym
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Berhold Bürger. The novel was again adapted for the 1957 film ''
Salzburg Stories
''Salzburg Stories'' (German: ''Salzburger Geschichten'') is a 1957 West German romantic comedy film directed by Kurt Hoffmann and starring Marianne Koch, Paul Hubschmid and Peter Mosbacher.Bock & Bergfelder p.253 It was shot at the Bavaria Studios ...
''.
Although it was set in Austria, the film was not made by the Vienna-based
Wien-Film
Wien-Film GmbH ("Vienna Film Limited") was a large Austrian film company, which in 1938 succeeded the Tobis-Sascha-Filmindustrie AG (Sascha Film Company) and lasted until 1985. Until 1945 the business was owned by the Cautio Trust Company (''Cauti ...
which had been set up following the
Anschluss
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The idea of an (a united Austria and Germany that would form a " Greater Germany ...
of 1938. Instead it was produced by the dominant German studio
UFA
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and shot at the
Tempelhof Studios
The Tempelhof Studios are a film studio located in Tempelhof in the German capital of Berlin. They were founded in 1912, during the silent era, by German film pioneer Alfred Duskes, who built a glass-roofed studio on the site with financial back ...
in
Berlin
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. The film's sets were designed by the
art director
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It is the charge of a sole art director to supervise and ...
Walter Röhrig
Walter Röhrig (13 April 1897 – 1945) was a German art director.Stephens p.163
Selected filmography
* '' The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari'' (1920)
* ''Masks'' (1920)
* ''Parisian Women'' (1921)
* '' Island of the Dead'' (1921)
* ''Miss Julie'' (192 ...
.
Location shooting
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The filming location may be the same in which the story is set (for exam ...
took place at
Bad Reichenhall
Bad Reichenhall (Central Bavarian: ''Reichahoi'') is a spa town, and administrative center of the Berchtesgadener Land district in Upper Bavaria, Germany. It is located near Salzburg in a basin encircled by the Chiemgau Alps (including Mount Staufe ...
and
Salzburg
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The town is on the site of the ...
towards the end of 1942. It was premiered in
Frankfurt
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, while the first Berlin screening took place at the
Marmorhaus
The Marmorhaus (English: Marble House) is a former cinema located on the Kurfürstendamm in Berlin. Opened in 1913, it takes its name from a large marble façade. Designed by the architect Hugo Pál, the walls of the foyer and auditorium were dec ...
.
Cast
*
Willy Fritsch
Willy Fritsch (27 January 1901 – 13 July 1973) was a German theater and film actor, a popular leading man and character actor from the silent-film era to the early 1960s.
Biography Early life
He was born Wilhelm Egon Fritz Fritsch, the only s ...
as Georg Rentmeister
*
Hertha Feiler
Hertha Feiler (3 August 1916, Vienna – 1 November 1970, Munich) was an Austrian actress. She was married to the comedian Heinz Rühmann with whom she starred in several films. She was of Jewish descent.
Filmography
* '' Darling of the Sailors ...
as Konstanze
*
Heinz Salfner
Heinz Salfner (31 December 1877 – 13 October 1945) was a German stage and film actor. Salfner appeared in more than sixty films during his career. He played the lead in the 1932 crime film '' A Shot at Dawn''.Youngkin p.465
Selected filmography ...
as Leopold
*
Hilde Sessak
Hilde Sessak (27 July 1915 – 17 April 2003) was a German actress who appeared in more than ninety film and television series during her career. She appeared in a number of films during the Nazi era including ''Quax the Crash Pilot'' (1941).Reim ...
as Jutta
*
Charlott Daudert
Charlott Daudert (27 December 1913 – 19 January 1961) was a German film actress.Jacobsen & Prinzler p.275
Filmography
* '' The Csardas Princess'' (1934)
* ''Frasquita'' (1934)
* '' Da stimmt was nicht'' (1934)
* '' Old Comrades'' (1934)
* '' ...
as Doris
*
Peter Widmann
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** Saint Peter (died 60s), apostle of Jesus, leader of the early Christian Church
* Peter (surname), a su ...
as Karl Kesselhut, Maler
*
Louis Soldan
Louis Soldan (19 March 1920 – 25 April 1971) was an Austrian actor.
Biography
Louis Soldan was the son of the shoe manufacturer Alois Soldan. After middle school, he trained as an actor at the Drama Seminar of ''Dr. Beer''.
Soldan appear ...
as Franz-Xaver von Raitenau
*
Auguste Pünkösdy
Auguste Pünkösdy (1890–1967) was an Austrian stage and film actress.Soister p.46
Selected filmography
* ''The Giant's Fist'' (1917)
* ''Alkohol'' (1919)
* '' Circus Saran'' (1935)
* '' Little Mother'' (1935)
* '' Vienna 1910'' (1943)
* ''Late ...
as Karoline
*
Inge Drexel
Inge is a given name in various Germanic language-speaking cultures. In Swedish and Norwegian, it is mostly used as a masculine, but less often also as a feminine name, sometimes as a short form of Ingeborg, while in Danish, Estonian, Frisian, Ge ...
as Mizzi
*
Charlotte Schultz as Frau Dirksen
*
Hans Leibelt
Hans Leibelt (11 March 1885 in Leipzig, German Empire – 3 December 1974 in Munich, West Germany) was a German film actor.
Selected filmography
* ''Heimliche Sünder'' (1926)
* '' The False Prince'' (1927)
* ''The Man in Search of His Murd ...
as Herr Dirksen
*
Hans Richter as Detlef
*
Elise Aulinger
Elise Aulinger (11 December 1881 – 12 February 1965) was a German stage, radio and film actress.
Selected filmography
* ''The Favourite of the Queen'' (1922)
* ''Martin Luther'' (1923)
* ''What the Stones Tell'' (1925)
* ''The Seventh Son'' (1 ...
as Eine Bedienstete des Grafen
*
Julius Brandt
Julius Brandt (5 March 1873, in Olmütz – 26 December 1949, in Vienna) was an Austrian stage and film actor, film director and screenwriter.
Selected filmography
* '' The Gentleman Without a Residence'' (1915)
* ''Pogrom'' (1919)
* ''The Priso ...
as Eine Bedienstete des Grafen
*
Rudolf Brix as Fred, Tanzgigolo
*
Heinz Burkart
The H. J. Heinz Company is an American food processing company headquartered at One PPG Place in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The company was founded by Henry J. Heinz in 1869. Heinz manufactures thousands of food products in plants on six contine ...
as Der Lehrer, ein Tourist, dem der Steinwurf nicht galt
*
Angelo Ferrari
Angelo Ferrari (14 August 1897 – 15 June 1945) was an Italian actor known for his work in German cinema.
Selected filmography
* ''The Nude Woman'' (1922)
* ''The Green Manuela'' (1923)
* ''Samson'' (1923)
* '' The Faces of Love'' (1924)
* ''Pr ...
as Der Kellner im italienischen Weinlokal
*
Erich Fiedler
Erich Fiedler (15 March 1901 – 19 May 1981) was a German film actor. He was the German dubbing voice of Robert Morley.
Selected filmography
* ''The Escape to Nice'' (1932)
* ''Overnight Sensation'' (1932)
* '' Marion, That's Not Nice'' (1933)
...
as Dr. Bürger, ein Freund Georgs
*
Lutz Götz
Lutz Götz (1891 – 1958) was a German stage and film actor.Richards p.375
Selected filmography
* '' The Immortal Vagabond'' (1930)
* '' Patriots'' (1937)
* ''Legion Condor'' (1939)
* ''Congo Express'' (1939)
* '' Counterfeiters'' (1940)
* ''Ab ...
as Dr. Bürger, ein Freund Georgs
*
Max Gülstorff
Max Walter Gülstorff (23 March 1882 – 6 February 1947) was a German actor and stage director.
Biography
Gülstorff was born in Tilsit, East Prussia. He first appeared in 1900 at the Rudolstadt municipal Theater and moved to Cottbus in 1908.
...
as Der Geheimrat
*
Karl Hellmer
Karl Hellmer (11 March 1896 – 18 May 1974) was an Austrian film actor. He appeared in 92 films between 1932 and 1969. He was born in Vienna, Austria and died in Berlin, Germany.
Selected filmography
* ''I by Day, You by Night'' (1932)
* ...
as Der Zollbeamte im Bus
*
Leopold Kerscher
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* Leopold (given name)
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* Leopold (''The Simpsons''), Superintendent Chalmers' assistant on ''The Simpsons''
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as Ein Bediensteter des Grafen
*
Sonja Kuska
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:* Sonia (actress), Indian film actress in Malayalam and Tamil films
:* Sonia ...
as Die Verkäuferin im Salzburger Hutgeschäft
*
Maria Loja
Maria Loja (1890–1953) was a German stage and film actress.Giesen p.197
Selected filmography
* ''What Am I Without You'' (1934)
* ''Adventure on the Southern Express'' (1934)
* ''The Grand Duke's Finances'' (1934)
* ''What Am I Without You'' ...
as Eine Marktstandverkäuferin
*
Ernst Martens
Ernst is both a surname and a given name, the German, Dutch, and Scandinavian form of Ernest. Notable people with the name include:
Surname
* Adolf Ernst (1832–1899) German botanist known by the author abbreviation "Ernst"
* Anton Ernst (1975- ...
as Der Hotelier in Bad Reichenhall
*
Marianne Probstmeier as Ein Zimmermädchen
*
Claire Reigbert
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Canada
* Clair, New Brunswick, a former village, now part of Haut-Madawaska
* Clair Parish, New Brunswick
* Pointe-Claire, Que ...
as Die Frau des Lehrers
*
Else Reval
Else Reval (14 June 1893 – 25 January 1978) was a German film actress.Giesen p.210
Selected filmography
* ''War in Peace'' (1925)
* '' The World Wants To Be Deceived'' (1926)
* '' Marriage Announcement'' (1926)
* '' The Eleven Schill Officers'' ...
as Tanzpartnerin vom Gigolo Fred
*
Ferdinand Robert
Ferdinand is a Germanic name composed of the elements "protection", "peace" (PIE "to love, to make peace") or alternatively "journey, travel", Proto-Germanic , abstract noun from root "to fare, travel" (PIE , "to lead, pass over"), and "co ...
as Ein Gast im Hotelrestaurant
*
Hans Schulz as Der Lohndiener im Hotel
*
Franz Weber as Sekretär
*
Ewald Wenck
Ewald Wenck (28 December 1891 – 3 April 1981) was a German actor. He appeared in more than 230 films and television shows between 1919 and 1978.
Selected filmography
* ''We Stick Together Through Thick and Thin'' (1929)
* ''Spoiling the ...
as Tetzlaff, Obersekretär der deutschen Devisenstelle
*
Carl Wery
Carl Sebastian Martin Wery (born Wery de Lemans; 7 August 1897 in Trostberg, Upper Bavaria – 14 March 1975 in Munich) was a German actor.
Selected filmography
* ''No Day Without You'' (1933)
* ''Anna and Elizabeth'' (1933) - Annas Vater
...
as Der Tourist mit dem Fernglas
References
Bibliography
* Hake, Sabine. ''Popular Cinema of the Third Reich''. University of Texas Press, 2001.
* Eric, Rentschler. ''The Ministry of Illusion: Nazi Cinema and Its Afterlife''. Harvard University Press, 1996.
External links
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1943 films
Films of Nazi Germany
German romantic comedy films
1943 romantic comedy films
1940s German-language films
Films directed by Hans Deppe
Films based on German novels
Films based on works by Erich Kästner
Films set in the 1930s
Films set in Salzburg
UFA GmbH films
German black-and-white films
Films shot at Tempelhof Studios
Films scored by Ludwig Schmidseder
1940s German films
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