''No Money Needed'' (german: Man braucht kein Geld) is a 1932
German 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
Hedy Lamarr
Hedy Lamarr (; born Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler; November 9, 1914 January 19, 2000) was an Austrian-born American film actress and inventor. A film star during Hollywood's golden age, Lamarr has been described as one of the greatest movie actress ...
,
Heinz Rühmann, and
Hans Moser. It was shot at the
Babelsberg Studios
Babelsberg Film Studio (german: Filmstudio Babelsberg), located in Potsdam-Babelsberg outside Berlin, Germany, is the second oldest large-scale film studio in the world only preceded by the Danish Nordisk Film (est. 1906), producing films since ...
in
Berlin
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with sets designed by the
art director Julius von Borsody
Julius von Borsody (8 April 1892 in Vienna – 18 January 1960, also in Vienna) was an Austrian film architect and one of the most employed set designers in the Austrian and German cinemas of the late silent and early sound film periods. His yo ...
. It premiered on 5 February 1932. It was based on a play by
Ferdinand Alternkirch and was shot during November 1931.
A French remake (''Pas besoin d'argent'') and an Italian remake (''Non c'è bisogno di denaro'') were made in 1933. Boese himself remade the story in 1953 under the title ''
The Uncle from America''.
Synopsis
A virtually
bankrupt
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businessman in a small town manages to convince people that his newly arrived cousin, who is equally impoverished, is a
millionaire
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.
Cast
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Hedy Lamarr
Hedy Lamarr (; born Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler; November 9, 1914 January 19, 2000) was an Austrian-born American film actress and inventor. A film star during Hollywood's golden age, Lamarr has been described as one of the greatest movie actress ...
as Käthe Brandt
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Heinz Rühmann as Heinz Schmidt
*
Hans Moser as Thomas Theodor Hoffmann
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Ida Wüst
Ida Wüst (; 10 October 1884 – 4 October 1958) was a German stage and film actress whose career was prominent in the 1920s and 1930s with Universum Film AG (UFA).
Life and career
Little is known about Ida Wüst's early childhood. She discovere ...
as Frau Brandt
*
Hans Junkermann as Herrmann Brandt
*
Kurt Gerron
Kurt Gerron (11 May 1897 – 28 October 1944) was a German Jewish actor and film director. He and his wife, Olga were murdered in the Holocaust.
Life
Born Kurt Gerson into a well-off merchant family in Berlin, he studied medicine before being ca ...
as Bank President Binder
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Paul Henckels
Paul Henckels (9 September 1885 – 27 May 1967) was a German film and stage actor. He appeared in more than 230 films between 1921 and 1965. Paul Henckels had started his acting career on the stage in the 1900s.
He was well known for his e ...
as The Mayor
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Hans Hermann Schaufuß
Hans Hermann Schaufuß (13 July 1893 – 30 January 1982) was a German actor. He appeared in more than one hundred films from 1922 to 1969. His sons were actors Hans Joachim Schaufuß
Hans Joachim Schaufuß (transliterated: Schaufuss) (28 Decemb ...
as Hotelier
*
Albert Florath
Albert Peter Adam Florath (7 December 1888, Bielefeld – 11 March 1957, Gaildorf) was a German stage and film actor.
Early life and education
Born to Joseph Florath, a locksmith, and his wife Matilda, née Burkart, he attended school in Brakel ...
as head of savings banks
*
Fritz Odemar as Schröder
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Gerhard Dammann as husband
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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 ...
*
Ludwig Stössel
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Siegfried Berisch
Siegfried Berisch (? – 4 October 1933, in Vienna), 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.
Partial filmography
* 192 ...
*
Wolfgang von Schwindt
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Heinrich Schroth
Heinrich August Franz Schroth (23 March 1871 – 14 January 1945) was a German stage and film actor.
Career
Schroth was born in Pirmasens, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. He made his acting debut at the Sigmaringen Royal Theatre in 1890. In 1894 h ...
*
Karl Hannemann
*
Leopold von Ledebur
Leopold von Ledebur (18 May 1876 – 22 August 1955) was a German stage and film actor.
Selected filmography
* ''Carmen'' (1918)
* ''The Serenyi'' (1918)
* ''Midnight'' (1918)
* ''The Foolish Heart'' (1919)
* '' The Golden Lie'' (1919)
* '' T ...
References
External links
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Films of the Weimar Republic
1932 comedy films
German comedy films
Films directed by Carl Boese
German films based on plays
Films produced by Arnold Pressburger
German black-and-white films
Bavaria Film films
Cine-Allianz films
1930s German-language films
Films shot at Babelsberg Studios
1930s German films
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