''My Cousin from Warsaw'' (german: Meine Cousine aus Warschau) is a 1931 German

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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

Liane Haid Juliane "Liane" Haid (16 August 1895 – 28 November 2000) was an Austrian actress and singer. She has often been referred to as Austria's first movie star. Biography Juliane Haid was born in Vienna on 16 August 1895, the first child to Georg ...

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, and Fritz Schulz. It was shot at the

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.Jacobsen p.346 The film's

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was

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. A separate

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version '' Ma cousine de Varsovie'' was also made, directed by

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. The film was based upon the play by

Louis Verneuil Louis Jacques Marie Collin du Bocage (14 May 1893 – 3 November 1952), better known by the pen name Louis Verneuil, was a French playwright, screenwriter, and actor. Biography Born in Paris, Verneuil wrote approximately sixty plays and was be ...

Cast

as Sonja, the cousin from Warsaw *

as Lucienne * Fritz Schulz as Fred Carteret *

S. Z. Sakall Szőke Szakáll (born Jakab Grünwald, akas: Gärtner Sándor and Gerő Jenő; February 2, 1883 February 12, 1955), known in the English-speaking world as S. Z. Sakall, was a Hungarian-American stage and film character actor. He appeared in ...

as Burel, Lucienne's Spouse *

Charles Puffy Charles Puffy (born Károly Hochstadt; 3 November 1884 – 1942 or 1943) was a Hungarian film actor. Biography Hochstadt appeared in more than 130 films between 1914 and 1938. He was the only slapstick star in Hungary's silent film era, appear ...

as Tobby * Paul Kemp as the Neighbor *

Hugo Fischer-Köppe Hugo Fischer-Köppe (13 February 1890, in Bielefeld – 31 December 1937, in Berlin) was an early German film actor. Fischer-Köppe entered film in 1917 and appeared in some 80 different films between 1913 and his premature death in 1937 in films ...

as Sonja's Chauffeur *

Leo Peukert Leonhard "Leo" Peukert (26 August 1885 – 6 January 1944) was a prolific German film actor and film director, appearing in more than a hundred and fifty productions between 1910 and his death in 1944. While occasionally he played a leading role i ...

as doctor

Release

''My Cousin from Warsaw'' was screened in Germany at the

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on 18 August 1931.

References

Bibliography

* Jacobsen, Wolfgang. ''Babelsberg: ein Filmstudio 1912-1992''. Argon, 1992.

External links

* German comedy films 1931 comedy films Films of the Weimar Republic Films directed by Carl Boese German films based on plays Films based on works by Louis Verneuil German multilingual films Cine-Allianz films German black-and-white films Films with screenplays by Franz Schulz 1931 multilingual films 1930s German films {{1930s-Germany-film-stub