''Alarm in Peking'' is a 1937 German
adventure film directed by
Herbert Selpin
Herbert Selpin (29 May 1904 – 1 August 1942) was a German film director and screenwriter of light entertainment during the 1930s and 1940s. He is best known for his final film, the partly suppressed ''Titanic'', during the production of which h ...
and starring
Gustav Fröhlich
Gustav Fröhlich (21 March 1902 – 22 December 1987) was a German actor and film director. He landed secondary roles in a number of films and plays before landing his breakthrough role of Freder Fredersen in Fritz Lang's 1927 film ''Metropoli ...
,
Leny Marenbach, and
Peter Voß
Peter Voß (29 June 1891 – 9 January 1979) was a German film actor.
Partial filmography
* '' Love and Trumpets'' (1925) - Rekrut Dirmoser
* '' Struggle for the Matterhorn'' (1928) - Edward Whymper
* ''Diane - Die Geschichte einer Pariserin'' ...
. It is set against the backdrop of the 1900
Boxer Rebellion in China. German filmmakers had frequently used China as a setting since the 1910s, but from 1931 onwards they made a series of films with political overtones.
[Baskett p. 194]
The film's sets were designed by the
art director Alfred Bütow and
Willi Herrmann
Willi Herrmann (1893–1968) was a German art director.
Selected filmography
* '' Madness'' (1919)
* '' Child on the Open Road'' (1919)
* '' Jettatore'' (1919)
* '' Humanity Unleashed'' (1920)
* '' The Secrets of Berlin'' (1921)
* '' The Mahar ...
. It was shot at the
Johannisthal Studios
The Johannisthal Studios were film studios located in the Berlin area of Johannisthal. Founded in 1920 on the site of a former airfield, they were a centre of production during the Weimar and Nazi eras. Nearly four hundred films were made at Joha ...
in
Berlin
Berlin ( , ) is the capital and List of cities in Germany by population, largest city of Germany by both area and population. Its 3.7 million inhabitants make it the European Union's List of cities in the European Union by population within ci ...
.
Cast
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Gustav Fröhlich
Gustav Fröhlich (21 March 1902 – 22 December 1987) was a German actor and film director. He landed secondary roles in a number of films and plays before landing his breakthrough role of Freder Fredersen in Fritz Lang's 1927 film ''Metropoli ...
as Oberleutnant Brock
*
Leny Marenbach as Maria
*
Peter Voß
Peter Voß (29 June 1891 – 9 January 1979) was a German film actor.
Partial filmography
* '' Love and Trumpets'' (1925) - Rekrut Dirmoser
* '' Struggle for the Matterhorn'' (1928) - Edward Whymper
* ''Diane - Die Geschichte einer Pariserin'' ...
as Captain Cunningham
*
Herbert Hübner
Herbert Hübner (6 February 1889 – 27 January 1972) was a German stage and film actor. He appeared in more than 150 films between 1921 and 1966. He was born in Breslau, Germany (now Wrocław, Poland) and died in Munich, Germany.
Selected fil ...
as Korvettenkapitän von Radain
*
Bernhard Minetti
Bernhard Theodor Henry Minetti (26 January 1905 – 12 October 1998) was a German actor. He appeared in 50 films between 1931 and 1996 but is mostly known for his distinguished stage career.
Selected filmography
*''The Murderer Dimitri Kara ...
as Tu-Hang
*
Rosa Jung as Yung-Li
*
Paul Westermeier
Paul Westermeier (9 July 1892 – 17 October 1972) was a German film actor.
Selected filmography
* '' Wedding in the Eccentric Club'' (1917)
* '' Agnes Arnau and Her Three Suitors'' (1918)
* '' About the Son'' (1921)
* '' Memoirs of a Film Act ...
as Sergeant Mück
*
Ferdinand Classen as Tschang
*
Joachim Rake as Leutnant Torelli
*
Günther Lüders
Günther Lüders (5 March 1905 – 1 March 1975) was a German actor. He appeared in more than 120 films between 1934 and 1975. He lived in Urfeld am Walchensee from 1954 until 1975.
Selected filmography
* ''Count Woronzeff'' (1934), as Cousin ...
as Gefreiter Lüdecke
*
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 Sergeant Micky
*
Arthur Reinhardt
Arthur Reinhardt (17 April 1893 – 16 December 1973) was a German actor.Kay Weniger
Kay Weniger (born in Berlin in 1966) is an Austrian writer of books on media issues. He published an eight-volume encyclopaedia on international film people ...
as Brandes
*
Adolf Fischer as Reiter
*
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 ...
as Generalkonsul
*
Georg H. Schnell
Georg Heinrich Schnell (11 April 1878 – 31 March 1951) was a German actor who remains perhaps best-known for his role as shipowner Harding in ''Nosferatu, Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens'' (1922). Georg appeared in over one hundred fi ...
as Gesandter
*
Karl Günther
Karl Günther (25 November 1885 – 27 June 1951) was an Austrian film actor.
Selected filmography
* '' The Masked Ones'' (1920)
* ''The Riddle of the Sphinx'' (1921)
* ''The Adventuress of Monte Carlo'' (1921)
* ''The Call of Destiny'' (1922)
* ' ...
as Kommandeur
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1937 films
1930s historical adventure films
German historical adventure films
Films of Nazi Germany
1930s German-language films
Films directed by Herbert Selpin
Films set in Beijing
Films set in 1900
Films set in the Qing dynasty
Siege films
Boxer Rebellion
Terra Film films
Films shot at Johannisthal Studios
German black-and-white films
1930s German films
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