''Invisible Opponent'' (German: ''Unsichtbare Gegner'') is a 1933 German-Austrian
drama film
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directed by
Rudolph Cartier
Rudolph Cartier (born Rudolph Kacser, renamed himself in Germany to Rudolph Katscher;
17 April 1904 – 7 June 1994) was an Austrian television director, Filmmaking, filmmaker, screenwriter and Film producer, producer who worked predominantly i ...
and starring
Gerda Maurus
Gerda Maurus (25 August 1903 – 31 July 1968) was an Austrian actress.
She was of Croatian descent and initially made her name on stage in Vienna. While performing in the theatre, she was discovered by the director Fritz Lang during a visit to ...
,
Paul Hartmann, and
Oskar Homolka
Oskar Homolka (August 12, 1898 – January 27, 1978) was an Austrian film and theatre actor, who went on to work in Germany, Britain and America. Both his voice and his appearance fitted him for roles as communist spies or Soviet officials, for w ...
. 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 ...
Erwin Scharf. The plot revolves around an oil swindle in a South American country. The film was made 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 ...
in
Vienna
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. The critics were not generally impressed with the film, the ''
Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung
''Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung'' (often abbreviated to DAZ) was a German newspaper that appeared between 1861 and 1945.
Until 1918 the title of the paper was ''Norddeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung''. Although Wilhelm Liebknecht, one of the founders ...
'' described it as "unbelievable and unbelievably awful picture".
A separate French-language version ''
The Oil Sharks
''The Oil Sharks'' (french: Les requins du pétrole) is a 1933 German drama film directed by Rudolph Cartier and Henri Decoin and starring Arlette Marchal, Vivian Grey and Gabriel Gabrio.Youngkin p. 466 It is the French-language version of ''Invis ...
'' was also released.
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Cast
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Gerda Maurus
Gerda Maurus (25 August 1903 – 31 July 1968) was an Austrian actress.
She was of Croatian descent and initially made her name on stage in Vienna. While performing in the theatre, she was discovered by the director Fritz Lang during a visit to ...
as Sybil Herford
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Paul Hartmann as Peter Ugron
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Oskar Homolka
Oskar Homolka (August 12, 1898 – January 27, 1978) was an Austrian film and theatre actor, who went on to work in Germany, Britain and America. Both his voice and his appearance fitted him for roles as communist spies or Soviet officials, for w ...
as James Godfrey
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Peter Lorre
Peter Lorre (; born László Löwenstein, ; June 26, 1904 – March 23, 1964) was a Hungarian and American actor, first in Europe and later in the United States. He began his stage career in Vienna, in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, before movin ...
as Henry Pless
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Paul Kemp as Hans Mertens
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Raoul Aslan
Raoul Aslan ( hy, Ռաուլ Ասլան, born Tigran Aslanyan, Armenian: Տիգրան Ասլանյան; 16 October 1886 – 17 June 1958) was an Austrian theater actor of Greek-Armenian ancestry.
Life
Born in Saloniki, Ottoman Empire (now in ...
as J. Delmonte
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Leonard Steckel
Leonard Steckel (18 January 1901 – 9 February 1971) was a German-JewishSiegbert Salomon Prawer, ''Between Two Worlds: The Jewish Presence in German and Austrian Film, 1910-1933'', Berghahn Books (2007), p. 213 actor and director of stage and scre ...
as Santos
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H. Kyser as Sir Thomas
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Eva Schmid-Kayser
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as Eva Ugron
*
Jaro Fürth
Jaro Fürth (born Edwin Fürth-Jaro; 21 April 1871 – 12 November 1945) was an Austrian stage and film actor.
Early life
Fürth was born to Jewish parents in Prague.[John Mylong
John Mylong (September 27, 1892 – September 8, 1975), also known as Jack Mylong-Münz, born Adolf Heinrich Münz, was an Austrian actor who later settled in the United States.
Selected filmography
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Otto Schmöle
Otto Schmöle (1890–1968) was a German actor.
Filmography
Bibliography
* Kulik, Karol. ''Alexander Korda: The Man Who Could Work Miracles''. Virgin Books, 1990.
External links
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1890 births
1968 deaths
German male film actors
Actors fr ...
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Franke
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Maria Holst
Maria Holst (1917–1980) was an Austrian film actress.
Selected filmography
* ''Invisible Opponent'' (1933)
* '' Court Theatre'' (1936)
* '' Operetta'' (1940)
* '' Vienna Blood'' (1942)
* ''Kiss Me Casanova'' (1949)
* '' The Trip to Marrakesh'' ...
*
Josef Rehberger Josef may refer to
*Josef (given name)
*Josef (surname)
* ''Josef'' (film), a 2011 Croatian war film
*Musik Josef
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*
Wilhelm Stauffen
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Mihail Xantho
References
Bibliography
* Youngkin, Stephen. ''The Lost One: A Life of Peter Lorre''. University Press of Kentucky, 2005.
External links
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1933 films
Films of the Weimar Republic
Austrian drama films
German drama films
1933 drama films
1930s German-language films
Films directed by Rudolph Cartier
Films set in South America
German multilingual films
Films about con artists
German black-and-white films
Austrian black-and-white films
1933 multilingual films
1930s German films
Films shot at Sievering Studios
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