''Police Report'' (German: ''Der Polizeibericht meldet'') is a 1934 German

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directed by

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and starring

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and

Hansi Niese Johanna Niese, known as Hansi Niese (10 November 1875 in Vienna – 4 April 1934) was an Austrian actress. Career Hansi Niese made her debut at age 18 in 1891 in the South Moravian town of Znojmo at the local theater. Her success story bega ...

. Rentschler p.230 It was adapted from the 1932 novel ''Die Frau im schwarzen Schleier'' by Hedda Lindne.

Synopsis

The head of the company is found shot dead, not long after attempting to seduce Gisela Ostercamp the wife of his business partner. The police investigate and conclude that she is guilty of the murder. She is placed on trial but the murdered man's brother, a

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, takes up her case.

Cast

as Gisela Ostercamp *

as Dr. Wolf Ostercamp, ihr Mann *

as Tante Nell, Giselas Tante *

Johannes Riemann Johannes Riemann (31 May 1888 – 30 September 1959) was a German actor and film director. Riemann was a member of the Nazi Party.Ernst Klee (2007) ''Das Personenlexikon zum Dritten Reich: Wer war was vor und nach 1945''. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Ver ...

as Wilbert Burkhardt, Rechtsanwalt *

Walter Steinbeck Walter Steinbeck (26 September 1878 – 27 August 1942) was a German film actor. Steinbeck was born in Niederlößnitz (now Radebeul), Saxony, Germany. He died at age 63 in Berlin, Germany. Selected filmography * ''The Romance of a Poor Sinn ...

Direktor Burkhardt, sein Bruder *

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as Anna Scheele *

Gerhard Bienert Gerhard Max Richard Bienert (8 January 1898 – 23 December 1986) was a German stage and film actor. Gerhard Bienert was born in Berlin, Germany and died in the same city in 1986 at age 88. Selected filmography * ''Duke Ferrante's End'' (1922) * ...

as Ihr Mann, ein Arbeiter *

Carl Balhaus Carl Balhaus (born Carl Ballhaus; 4 November 1905 – 28 July 1968) was a German stage and film actor. After the Second World War he worked as screenwriter and director for the East German state-owned studio DEFA. He was an uncle of the Academ ...

as Schriftleiter *

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 Steppuhn, Chauffeur bei RA. Burkhardt * Walter Gross as Schmidt *

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Vorsitzender des Gerichtes *

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as Mädchen bei Burkhardt *

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as Staatsanwalt *

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as Kriminalkommissär Haupt *

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as Wirt *

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as Sängerpaar *

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as Frau Schmidt, seine Frau *

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Kyra Lindemann, Opernsängerin *

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as Sängerpaar *

Ernst Behmer Ernst Behmer (22 December 1875 – 26 February 1938) was a prolific German stage and film actor who appeared in more than a hundred films during the silent and early sound eras. Behmer was born in Königsberg, East-Prussia, Germany (now Kalin ...

Eduard Bornträger Eduard Bornträger (22 June 1888 – 9 March 1958) was a German film actor.Jacobsen & Prinzler p.276 Selected filmography * '' The Hunter from Kurpfalz'' (1933) * ''Police Report'' (1934) * ''Lady Windermere's Fan'' (1935) * ''The Private Life of ...

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* Fritz Linn *

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References

Bibliography

* Giesen, Rolf. ''The Nosferatu Story: The Seminal Horror Film, Its Predecessors and Its Enduring Legacy''. McFarland, 2019. * Rentschler, Eric. ''The Ministry of Illusion: Nazi Cinema and Its Afterlife''. Harvard University Press, 1996.

External links

* 1934 films Films of Nazi Germany German mystery films 1934 mystery films German crime films 1934 crime films 1930s German-language films Films directed by Georg Jacoby Tobis Film films German black-and-white films Films based on German novels 1930s German films {{1930s-Germany-film-stub