''Achtung! Auto-Diebe!'' ( en, Warning! Car thieves!) is a 1930

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crime film directed by

Harry Piel Heinrich Piel (12 July 1892 – 27 March 1963), known professionally as Harry Piel, was a prolific German actor, film director, screenwriter, and film producer who was involved in over 150 films. Piel became a director in 1912, turning out such ...

and written by Hans Rameau. The film starred

and

Leopold von Ledebur Leopold von Ledebur (18 May 1876 – 22 August 1955) was a German stage and film actor. Selected filmography * ''Carmen'' (1918) * ''The Serenyi'' (1918) * ''Midnight'' (1918) * ''The Foolish Heart'' (1919) * '' The Golden Lie'' (1919) * '' T ...

Cast

as Harry Palen, Auto-Verkäufer and in alphabetical order *Charly Berger *

Hugo Fischer-Köppe Hugo Fischer-Köppe (13 February 1890, in Bielefeld – 31 December 1937, in Berlin) was an early German film actor. Fischer-Köppe entered film in 1917 and appeared in some 80 different films between 1913 and his premature death in 1937 in films ...

as Franz, Chauffeur *Charles Francois *

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 Jakob Reuß, Inhaber einer Auto-Firma * Dary Holm as Helene, seine Gattin *

Herbert Paulmüller Herbert may refer to: People Individuals * Herbert (musician), a pseudonym of Matthew Herbert Name * Herbert (given name) * Herbert (surname) Places Antarctica * Herbert Mountains, Coats Land * Herbert Sound, Graham Land Australia * Herbert, ...

Lydia Potechina Lydia Potechina (5 September 1883 – 30 April 1934) was a Russian actress. She emigrated to Germany in 1918. She was married to the Russian-German film producer Max Pfeiffer. Selected filmography *''Destiny'' (1921) * '' The Conspiracy in Genoa ...

* Oswald Scheffel * Raimondo Van Riel as Robert Radek *

as Eggert, Kriminalkommissär

Release

The film premiered on 5 June 1930 in

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External links

* 1930 films Films of the Weimar Republic 1930s German-language films German black-and-white films 1930 crime films Films directed by Harry Piel German crime films 1930s German films {{1930s-crime-film-stub