''Mikosch Comes In'' (german: Mikosch rückt ein) is a 1952 West German
comedy film
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directed by
Johann Alexander Hübler-Kahla
Johann Alexander Hübler-Kahla (23 June 1902 – 6 April 1965) was an Austrian screenwriter, film producer, and director. He directed seventeen films including the musical comedy ''Dance Music'' (1935)Waldman p.103 and the Karl May adaptation ''A ...
and starring
Georg Thomalla
Georg Thomalla (14 February 1915 – 25 August 1999) was a German actor. He appeared in about one hundred fifty film and television productions between 1939 and 2000 and was widely known in Germany for his comedic roles.
Thomalla was well k ...
,
Willy Fritsch
Willy Fritsch (27 January 1901 – 13 July 1973) was a German theater and film actor, a popular leading man and character actor from the silent-film era to the early 1960s.
Biography Early life
He was born Wilhelm Egon Fritz Fritsch, the only s ...
and
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 ...
.
[Bock & Bergfelder p.216] It was shot at the
Tempelhof Studios
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in
West Berlin
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. 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 ...
s
Willi A. Herrmann and
Heinrich Weidemann
Heinrich Weidemann (1899–1982) was a German art director.Lowe p.179
Selected filmography
* '' The Gambler'' (1938)
* '' The Swedish Nightingale'' (1941)
* ''Ghost in the Castle'' (1947)
* ''The Trip to Marrakesh'' (1949)
* ''Scandal at the Emba ...
.
Cast
*
Georg Thomalla
Georg Thomalla (14 February 1915 – 25 August 1999) was a German actor. He appeared in about one hundred fifty film and television productions between 1939 and 2000 and was widely known in Germany for his comedic roles.
Thomalla was well k ...
as Janos Nawratil
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Willy Fritsch
Willy Fritsch (27 January 1901 – 13 July 1973) was a German theater and film actor, a popular leading man and character actor from the silent-film era to the early 1960s.
Biography Early life
He was born Wilhelm Egon Fritz Fritsch, the only s ...
as Oberst von Körömsbös
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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 Dr. Paliwec
*
Oskar Sima
Oskar Sima (31 July 1896 – 24 June 1969) was an Austrian actor who is best remembered for appearing in supporting roles in countless comedy films from the 1930s to the 1960s.
Born in Hohenau an der March, Lower Austria, Sima attended high sch ...
as Baron Mikosch
*
Heli Finkenzeller
Heli Finkenzeller (17 November 1914Friedemann, Beyer (1992)''Die Gesichter der UFA: Starportraits einer Epoche'' München: Wilhelm Heyne Verlag. Page 46. . – 14 January 1991) was a German actress. She appeared in more than 80 films and tel ...
as Claire von Ferency
*
Paul Klinger
Paul Karl Heinrich Klinksik (14 June 1907, Essen – 14 November 1971, Munich) was a German stage and film actor who also worked in radio drama and soundtrack dubbing.
Family life
His father, a civil engineer, was Karl Heinrich Klinksik; his moth ...
as Tibor von Köröd
*
Christiane Jansen as Margit von Ferency
*
Ludwig Schmitz
Ludwig Schmitz (January 28, 1884 – June 28, 1954) was a German film actor. He appeared in more than forty films during his career including the 1951 comedy '' The Heath Is Green''. He was part of the popular comedy duo Tran and Helle along with ...
as Turmwurzel, Oberkellner
*
Franz-Otto Krüger
Franz-Otto Krüger (1 April 1917 – 17 March 1988) was a German film and television actor. Krüger already started his acting at Berlin theatres in 1934, but his career was interrupted by his service in the Second World War. He appeared in over ...
as Fotograf
*
Kurt Pratsch-Kaufmann
Kurt Pratsch-Kaufmann (1906–1988) was a German stage, television and film actor.Cowie p.154 He was married to the actress Marianne Pohlenz.
Selected filmography
* '' The Black Forest Girl'' (1950) - Staubig, Buchhalter
* ''Herzen im Sturm'' (19 ...
as Feldwebel Janos
*
Bruno Fritz
Bruno Fritz (4 March 1900 – 12 June 1984) was a German actor. He appeared in more than sixty films from 1934 to 1971.
Selected filmography
References
External links
*
1900 births
1984 deaths
German male film actors
Rundfunk im a ...
as Major von Itzenblitz
*
Wolfgang Dohnberg
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as Oberleutnant von Bredow
*
Gerd Frickhöffer
Gerd Frickhöffer (21 November 1913 – 4 July 1980) was a German film and television actor. He appeared as Captain Donvan in the television detective series ''Sergeant Berry''.
Selected filmography
* ''Chemistry and Love'' (1948)
* ''Everything ...
as Leutnant von Kitzewitz
*
Walter Gross as Fritz Pickelmann, Bursche
*
Franz Arzdorf
Franz Arzdorf (5 May 1904 – 24 April 1974) was a German stage, film and television actor.Jacobsen & Prinzler p.276
Selected filmography
* ''Love Can Lie'' (1937)
* '' Dangerous Game'' (1937)
* ''Talking About Jacqueline'' (1937)
* '' A Night in ...
as Oberleutnant Graf Bobby
*
Joe Furtner
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Film and television
* ''Joe'' (1970 film), starring Peter Boyle
* ''Joe'' (2013 film), starring Nicolas Cage
* ''Joe'' (TV series), a British TV series airing from 1966 to 1971
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as Dorfpfarrer
*
Wolfgang Neuss
Wolfgang Neuss (3 December 1923 – 5 May 1989) was a German actor and Kabarett artist. Beginning in the mid-1960s, he also became famous for his political engagement, first for the SPD, then for the extra-parliamentary opposition, ''APO''. H ...
as Franzek
*
Lucie Englisch
Lucie Englisch (8 February 1902, in Baden bei Wien – 12 October 1965) was an Austrian actress.
She was married to the actor Heinrich Fuchs.
Selected filmography
* ''The Night Belongs to Us'' (1929)
* ''Three Days Confined to Barracks'' (1930 ...
as Erzy, Schweinemagd
*
Peter Paul Richter
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as Karoli, Bursche
*
Bruno W. Pantel as Eugen
*
Friedl Hardt
Friedl Hardt (28 January 1919 – 11 June 1991) was a German actress.
Selected filmography
* ''The Tiger Akbar'' (1951)
* '' Mikosch Comes In'' (1952)
* ''Arena of Death'' (1953)
* '' Hooray, It's a Boy!'' (1953)
* '' The Three from the Fill ...
as Dancer
References
Bibliography
* Hans-Michael Bock and Tim Bergfelder. ''The Concise Cinegraph: An Encyclopedia of German Cinema''. Berghahn Books, 2009.
External links
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1952 films
1952 comedy films
German comedy films
West German films
1950s German-language films
Films directed by Johann Alexander Hübler-Kahla
Military humor in film
Films set in the 1900s
German black-and-white films
1950s German films
Films shot at Tempelhof Studios
German historical films
1950s historical films
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