''Peter Voss, Thief of Millions'' (german: Peter Voss, der Millionendieb) is a 1946 German
comedy
Comedy is a genre of fiction that consists of discourses or works intended to be humorous or amusing by inducing laughter, especially in theatre, film, stand-up comedy, television, radio, books, or any other entertainment medium. The term o ...
crime film
Crime films, in the broadest sense, is a film genre inspired by and analogous to the crime fiction literary genre. Films of this genre generally involve various aspects of crime and its detection. Stylistically, the genre may overlap and combine ...
directed by
Karl Anton
Karl Anton or Karel Anton (25 October 1898 12 April 1979) was a Bohemian-born German film director, screenwriter and film producer.
Biography
He was born in Prague on 25 October 1898. His father Wilhelm Anton (1861–1918) was a physician. An ...
and starring
Viktor de Kowa
Viktor de Kowa (also spelled Victor de Kowa, born Victor Paul Karl Kowalczyk; 8 March 1904 – 8 April 1973) was a German stage and film actor, chanson singer, director, narrator, and comic poet.
Life
He was born the son of a farmer and engineer ...
,
Else von Möllendorff
Else von Möllendorff (29 December 1913 – 28 July 1982) was a German film actress who appeared in a mixture of lead and supporting roles during the Nazi and post-war eras.
Partial filmography
* ''Ein falscher Fuffziger'' (1935) - Hilde Werne ...
Viktor de Kowa
Viktor de Kowa (also spelled Victor de Kowa, born Victor Paul Karl Kowalczyk; 8 March 1904 – 8 April 1973) was a German stage and film actor, chanson singer, director, narrator, and comic poet.
Life
He was born the son of a farmer and engineer ...
as Peter Voss
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Else von Möllendorff
Else von Möllendorff (29 December 1913 – 28 July 1982) was a German film actress who appeared in a mixture of lead and supporting roles during the Nazi and post-war eras.
Partial filmography
* ''Ein falscher Fuffziger'' (1935) - Hilde Werne ...
as Polly Petterson
*
Karl Schönböck
Karl Schönböck (4 February 1909 in Vienna – 24 March 2001 in Munich) was an Austrian actor.Hans Leibelt
Hans Leibelt (11 March 1885 in Leipzig, German Empire – 3 December 1974 in Munich, West Germany) was a German film actor.
Selected filmography
* ''Heimliche Sünder'' (1926)
* '' The False Prince'' (1927)
* ''The Man in Search of His Murd ...
as Van Gelder
*
Kurt Seifert
Kurt Seifert (4 July 1903 – 3 December 1950) was a German actor, singer, comedian, and in his later years, theatre director. Seifert was known as an operetta singer.O'Brien p.32 From 1934 onwards he appeared in a significant number of feature f ...
as Petterson
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Fritz Kampers
Fritz Kampers (14 July 1891 – 1 September 1950) was a German film actor. He appeared in more than 250 films between 1913 and 1950.
Early life
Fritz Kampers was the son of a Munich hotel owner, spent his early childhood in Garmisch-Partenk ...
as Fritz Mohr
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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 Max Egon Flipp
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Werner Stock
Werner Bruno Wilhelm Hermann Stock (20 October 1903 – 30 April 1972) was a German actor. He appeared in more than 130 films and television shows between 1932 and 1971.
Selected filmography
* ''Spoiling the Game'' (1932)
* ''Decoy'' (1934 ...
as Dodds Sekretär
* Gustav Bertram as Sam Parker
See also
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Überläufer
In German film history, an Überläufer (literally '' defector'') is a film that was in production under the Third Reich but only completed and premiered after the end of the Second World War. The vast majority of such films are romantic comedies ...