''Lina Braake'' ( Brechtian subtitle: ''Die Interessen der Bank können nicht die Interessen sein, die Lina Braake hat'') is a 1975 West German

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directed by Bernhard Sinkel and starring

Lina Carstens Lina Carstens (6 December 1892 in Wiesbaden – 22 September 1978 in Munich) was a German film and theater actress. On stage she appeared in plays by Gerhart Hauptmann, Arthur Schnitzler, and August Strindberg, and in her old age she starred in the ...

Fritz Rasp Fritz Heinrich Rasp (13 May 1891 – 30 November 1976) was a German film actor who appeared in more than 100 films between 1916 and 1976. His obituary in ''Der Spiegel'' described Rasp as "the German film villain in service, for over 60 years." ...

and Herbert Bötticher.The A to Z of German Cinema p.23 The film's sets were designed by the art director

Nicos Perakis Nikos Perakis ( el, Νίκος Περάκης; born 11 September 1944) is a Greek writer and film director. He studied at the Fine Arts Academy of Munich. At that time he worked as a set and costume designer. His 1984 film ''Loafing and Camouflag ...

Cast

as Lina Braake *

as Gustaf Haertlein * Herbert Bötticher as Johannes Koerner * Ellen Mahlke as Scholz *

Benno Hoffmann Benno may refer to: People Mononym * (927–940), saint * (1049–1061) *Benno I of Osnabrück (bishop, 1052–1067) *Benno of Meissen (bishop, 1066–1106), saint * Benno II of Osnabrück (bishop, 1068–1088) * Benno of Santi Martino e Silvestro ...

as Jawlonski *

Rainer Basedow Rainer Basedow (20 May 1938 – 15 May 2022) was a German film, television, and voice actor. He is known for having provided the voice of Pumbaa in the German dub of the ''Lion King'' franchise, up until his replacement with Jürgen Kluckert in ...

as Fink * Erica Schramm as Lene Schoener *

Walter Sedlmayr Walter Sedlmayr (6 January 1926 – 14 July 1990) was a popular German stage, television, and film actor from Bavaria. His murder in 1990 was widely publicized. Career After his 1945 wartime ''Abitur,'' Sedlmayr served as a '' Flakhelfer'' to ...

as Emil Schoener *

Oskar von Schab Oskar may refer to: * oskar (gene), the Drosophila gene * Oskar (given name) Oscar or Oskar is a masculine given name of Irish origin. Etymology The name is derived from two elements in Irish: the first, ''os'', means "deer"; the second element, ' ...

as Duerr *

Gustl Datz Gustl is both a German language masculine and feminine given, often a diminutive of the masculine given names Gustav (name), Gustav and August (name), August, and the feminine given name Augusta (name), Augusta. Individuals bearing the name Gustl i ...

as Gruber * Ellen Frank as Mangold * Wilfried Klaus as Wenzel * Teseo Tavernese as Ettore Falconi

References

Bibliography

* Reimer, Robert C. & Reimer, Carol J. ''The A to Z of German Cinema''. Scarecrow Press, 2010.

External links

* 1975 films 1975 drama films 1970s crime comedy films German drama films German crime comedy films West German films 1970s German-language films Films directed by Bernhard Sinkel Films about old age Films about con artists 1975 comedy films 1970s German films {{1970s-Germany-film-stub