''I Am Sebastian Ott'' (german: Ich bin Sebastian Ott) is a 1939 German crime film directed by

Willi Forst Willi Forst, born Wilhelm Anton Frohs (7 April 1903 – 11 August 1980) was an Austrian actor, screenwriter, film director, film producer and singer. As a debonair actor he was a darling of the German-speaking film audiences, as a director, one ...

and starring Forst, Gustav Diessl and

Trude Marlen Trude Marlen (born Trude Posch; 1912–2005) was an Austrian stage and film actress. She was the second wife of Wolf Albach-Retty, and moved to Germany to live with him during the Nazi era where she was well-connected with the Nazi leadership. She ...

.Von Dassanowsky p. 60 Some of the film was shot by the assistant director Viktor Becker. The film's sets were designed by the art director Kurt Herlth and

Werner Schlichting Werner Schlichting (1904–1996) was a German art director who worked on over a hundred films during a lengthy career. He worked on a number of Austrian films including '' The Congress Dances'' and '' The Last Ten Days'' (1955).Fritsche p.253 Sel ...

. It was shot partly at the

Sievering Studios Sievering Studios were film production studios located in Sievering, a suburb of the Austrian capital Vienna. The studios were established in 1916 by the film pioneer Alexander Kolowrat for use by his Sascha-Film. After the First World War they f ...

Vienna en, Viennese , iso_code = AT-9 , registration_plate = W , postal_code_type = Postal code , postal_code = , timezone = CET , utc_offset = +1 , timezone_DST ...

. It premiered at the

Gloria-Palast The Gloria-Palast was a German Movie theater, cinema located on the Kurfürstendamm in the German capital Berlin. It was constructed in 1924 and replaced the existing Baroque Revival architecture, neo-Baroque Romanischen Hauses designed by Franz ...

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shortly before the outbreak of the

Second World War World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposi ...

. The plot revolves around art fraud with Forst playing the dual role of twins, one honest and the other corrupt.

Cast

as Sebastian Ott / Ludwig Ott * Gustav Diessl as Strobl *

as Erika *

Paul Hörbiger Paul Hörbiger (29 April 1894 – 5 March 1981) was an Austrian theatre and film actor. Life and work Paul Hörbiger was born in the Hungarian capital Budapest, then part of Austria-Hungary, the son of engineer Hanns Hörbiger, founder of the ...

as Kriminalrat Baumann * Ady Berber as Meinhardt, Ganove * Lorenz Corvinus as Geheimrat bei der Ausstellung * Felix Dombrowsky as Kriminalkommissar *

Richard Eybner Richard Eybner (March 3, 1896 – June 20, 1986) was an Austrian actor at the theatre and in films. Selected filmography * '' Spring Parade'' (1934) * ''Peter'' (1934) * '' Little Mother'' (1935) * ''Dance Music'' (1935) * ''The Postman from Lon ...

as Schmiedl * Pepi Glöckner-Kramer as Marie, Mädchen bei Holzapfel * Hanns Hitzinger as Justizrat Norden * Reinhold Häussermann as Professor Nissen * Eduard Köck as Eberle, Faktoturn in der Galerie Ott *

Ferdinand Mayerhofer 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 Kriminalkommissar Hellriegl *

Alfred Neugebauer Alfred Neugebauer (24 December 1888 – 14 September 1957) was an Austrian film actor. Selected filmography * '' Money in the Streets'' (1922) * ''Money on the Street'' (1930) * '' Madame Bluebeard'' (1931) * '' Storm in a Water Glass'' (1931) * ...

as Dr. Nemetz, Kriminalrat in Prag * Fritz Puchstein as Sekretär * Johannes Roth as Kellner *

Werner Scharf Werner Scharf (19 September 1905 – 30 April 1945) was a German actor. He appeared in more than 45 films between 1929 and 1945. Personal life Scharf served in the ''Volkssturm'' during the Second World War and was killed in action on 30 A ...

as Paolini * Wilhelm Schich as Schneider * Otto Storm as Bankdirektor *

Otto Treßler Otto Treßler, also Otto Tressler, (13 April 1871 – 27 April 1965) was a German-Austrian stage and film actor. He appeared in more than 40 films between 1915 and 1962. He was born in Stuttgart, Germany and died in Vienna, Austria. He was ...

as Oberst Holzapfel *

Robert Valberg Robert Valberg (28 April 1884 – 15 October 1955) was an Austrian stage and film actor. Selected filmography * '' The Traitress'' (1911) * '' Ivan Koschula'' (1914) * '' The Silent Mill'' (1914) * '' Laugh Bajazzo'' (1915) * '' Money in the Stree ...

as Prosecutor in Kopenhagen

References

Bibliography

External links

* 1939 films 1939 crime films German crime films Films of Nazi Germany 1930s German-language films Films directed by Willi Forst German black-and-white films Bavaria Film films Films shot at Sievering Studios 1930s German films {{1930s-Germany-film-stub