''Constable Studer'' (German: ''Wachtmeister Studer'') is a 1939 Swiss
crime film
Crime films, in the broadest sense, is a film genre inspired by and analogous to the crime fiction literary genre. Films of this genre generally involve various aspects of crime and its detection. Stylistically, the genre may overlap and combine ...
directed by
Leopold Lindtberg
Leopold Lindtberg (born in Vienna on 1 June 1902; died in Sils im Engadin/Segl on 18 April 1984) was an Austrian Swiss film and theatre director. He fled Austria due to the Machtergreifung in Germany and ultimately settled in Switzerland.
His ...
and starring
Heinrich Gretler
Heinrich Gretler (1897–1977) was a Swiss film and television actor, who also starred on stage at the Bernhard-Theater in Zurich.
Selected filmography
* '' The Mysterious Mirror'' (1928)
* ''Struggle for the Matterhorn'' (1928)
* ''The Man w ...
,
Adolf Manz and
Anne-Marie Blanc
Anne-Marie Blanc (1919–2009) was born on 2 September 1919 in Vevey, Vaud, Switzerland. She was a Swiss film and television actress. She died on 5 February 2009 in Zurich, Switzerland. .
[Bock & Bergfelder p.169] The film is based on a novel by
Friedrich Glauser
Friedrich Glauser (4 February 1896 in Vienna – 8 December 1938 in Nervi) was a German-language Swiss writer. He was a morphine and opium addict for most of his life. In his first novel ''Gourrama'', written between 1928 and 1930, he treated his o ...
. It was followed by a sequel ''
Madness Rules
''Madness Rules'' (German: ''Matto regiert'') is a 1947 Swiss crime film directed by Leopold Lindtberg and starring Heinrich Gretler, Heinz Woester and Elisabeth Müller.Fritsche p.31 It is based on the 1936 novel of the same name by Friedrich Gla ...
'' in 1947 with Gretler reprising his role.
It was shot at the Rosenhof Studios in
Zurich over the summer of 1939.
Synopsis
A policeman is not convinced that the prime suspect in a murder case is realty guilty and so decides to reinvestigate the case, despite the lack of co-operation from locals.
Cast
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Heinrich Gretler
Heinrich Gretler (1897–1977) was a Swiss film and television actor, who also starred on stage at the Bernhard-Theater in Zurich.
Selected filmography
* '' The Mysterious Mirror'' (1928)
* ''Struggle for the Matterhorn'' (1928)
* ''The Man w ...
as Wachtmeister Jakob Studer / Constable Jakob Studer
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Adolf Manz as Bürgermeister Aeschbacher / Mayor Aeschbacher
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Bertha Danegger as Mutter Aeschbacher / Mother Aeschbacher
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Armin Schweizer Armin Schweizer (28 April 1892 – 8 October 1968) was a Swiss actor.
Schweizer was born in Zurich, Switzerland and died there at age 76
Selected filmography
* ''The Pied Piper of Hamelin'' (1918)
* '' The Galley Slave'' (1919)
* ''The Mayor of Z ...
as Gottlieb Ellenberger
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Ellen Widmann as Anastasia Witschi
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Robert Trösch as Armin Witschi
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Anne-Marie Blanc
Anne-Marie Blanc (1919–2009) was born on 2 September 1919 in Vevey, Vaud, Switzerland. She was a Swiss film and television actress. She died on 5 February 2009 in Zurich, Switzerland. as Sonja Witschi
*
Robert Bichler as Erwin Schlumpf
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Hans Kaes
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as Polizist Murmann / Police officer Murmann
*
Zarli Carigiet
Zarli Carigiet (5 August 1907 – 6 May 1981) was a Swiss actor and comedian. He was a member of the satirical Cabaret Cornichon and starred in movies by directors such as Leopold Lindtberg, Franz Schnyder, and Kurt Früh. He was the younge ...
as Schreier
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Rudolf Bernhard
Rudolf Bernhard or Rudolf Bernhard Conrath (26 March 1901 – 21 October 1962) was a Swiss comedian, radio personality, and stage and film actor starring usually in Swiss German language cinema and television and stage productions. In 1941 Berhard ...
as Schwomm
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Sigfrit Steiner
Sigfrit Steiner (31 October 1906 – 21 March 1988) was a Swiss actor. His first stage performance was in 1928 in Gera. He performed in more than one hundred films. He was married to journalist and author Anne Rose Katz.
Selected filmography ...
as Untersuchungsricher Steffen / Examining magistrate Steffen
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Alfred Lucca as Gerber
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Rita Liechti as Serviertochter
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Mathilde Danegger
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as Frau Hofmann
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Willi Ackermann
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Lukas Ammann
Lukas Ammann (29 September 1912 – 3 May 2017) was a Swiss actor who appeared mainly in German and Swiss films and television shows. He continued to work steadily for over 60 years. He is best known for his title role in the German televi ...
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Emil Gerber
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Literature
*''Emile, or On Education'' (1762), a treatise on education by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
* ''Émile'' (novel) (1827), an autobiographical novel based on Émile de Girardin's early life
*''Emil and the Detective ...
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Carlo Bertozza
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Arnold Müdespacher
References
Bibliography
* Bock, Hans-Michael & Bergfelder, Tim. ''The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema''. Berghahn Books, 2009.
External links
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1939 films
1939 crime films
Swiss crime films
Swiss German-language films
Films directed by Leopold Lindtberg
Films based on Swiss novels
Police detective films
Swiss black-and-white films
1930s police films
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