''Marriage Strike'' (German: ''Ehestreik'') is a 1930 German
silent comedy film
A comedy film is a category of film which emphasizes humor. These films are designed to make the audience laugh through amusement. Films in this style traditionally have a happy ending (black comedy being an exception). Comedy is one of the ol ...
directed by
Carl Boese
Carl Eduard Hermann Boese (; 26 August 1887 – 6 July 1958) was a German film director, screenwriter, and film producer, producer. He directed 158 films between 1917 and 1957.
Selected filmography
* ''Farmer Borchardt'' (1917)
* ''Donna Lucia ...
and starring
Livio Pavanelli
Livio Cesare Pavanelli (7 September 1881 – 29 April 1958) was an Italian film actor.
Pavanelli was born in Copparo, Ferrara, Emilia-Romagna, Italy and died in Rome in 1958 at age 76.
Selected filmography
* '' Mariute'' (1918)
*'' Fabiola'' ( ...
,
Maria Paudler
Maria Paudler (20 June 1903 – 17 August 1990) was an Austro-Hungarian-born German actress.
Selected filmography
* '' Madame Wants No Children'' (1926)
* ''The Young Man from the Ragtrade'' (1926)
* '' The Violet Eater'' (1926)
* ''One Does No ...
and
Georg Alexander
Georg Alexander (born Werner Ludwig Georg Lüddeckens; 3 April 1888 – 30 October 1945) was a German film actor who was a prolific presence in German cinema. He also directed a number of films during the silent era.
Personal life
He was married ...
.
[ Parish, James Robert & Canham, Kingsley. ''Film Directors Guide: Western Europe''. Scarecrow Press, 1976. p. 26]
The film's sets were designed by the
art director
Art director is the title for a variety of similar job functions in theater, advertising, marketing, publishing, fashion, film industry, film and television, the Internet, and video games.
It is the charge of a sole art director to supervise and ...
August Rinaldi
August Rinaldi (1883–1962) was a German art director. He worked on around fifty films during the silent era. Rinaldi was of Jewish descent.Prawer p.212
Selected filmography
* ''Let There Be Light'' (1917)
* '' Diary of a Lost Woman'' (1918)
* ...
. It was made at the tail-end of silent film production, as
sound film
A sound film is a motion picture with synchronized sound, or sound technologically coupled to image, as opposed to a silent film. The first known public exhibition of projected sound films took place in Paris in 1900, but decades passed before ...
was rapidly taking over.
Cast
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Livio Pavanelli
Livio Cesare Pavanelli (7 September 1881 – 29 April 1958) was an Italian film actor.
Pavanelli was born in Copparo, Ferrara, Emilia-Romagna, Italy and died in Rome in 1958 at age 76.
Selected filmography
* '' Mariute'' (1918)
*'' Fabiola'' ( ...
as Doctor Fritz Denk
*
Maria Paudler
Maria Paudler (20 June 1903 – 17 August 1990) was an Austro-Hungarian-born German actress.
Selected filmography
* '' Madame Wants No Children'' (1926)
* ''The Young Man from the Ragtrade'' (1926)
* '' The Violet Eater'' (1926)
* ''One Does No ...
as Mary
*
Georg Alexander
Georg Alexander (born Werner Ludwig Georg Lüddeckens; 3 April 1888 – 30 October 1945) was a German film actor who was a prolific presence in German cinema. He also directed a number of films during the silent era.
Personal life
He was married ...
as Doctor Edgar Hupp
*
Julius Falkenstein
Julius Falkenstein (25 February 1879 – 9 December 1933) was a German stage and film actor of the silent era. He appeared in more than 180 films between 1914 and 1933. Falkenstein was Jewish, but secured a special permit to continue making ...
as Professor Haberling
*
Hanni Weisse
Hanni Weisse (16 October 1892 – 13 December 1967) was a German stage and film actress.Sutton, Katie. The Masculine Woman in Weimar Germany', pp. 68-69. New York, New York: Bergahn, 2011. She appeared in 146 films between 1912 and 1942.
Biogra ...
as Lucy
*
Gerhard Dammann
Gerhard Dammann (30 March 1883 – 21 February 1946) was a German film actor.
Selected filmography
* '' The Man in the Cellar'' (1914)
* '' Under the Lantern'' (1928)
* '' Eva in Silk'' (1928)
* '' Lemke's Widow'' (1928)
* '' When the Mother an ...
References
External links
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1930 comedy films
German comedy films
Films of the Weimar Republic
Films directed by Carl Boese
German silent feature films
German black-and-white films
Silent comedy films
1930s German films
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