''Rooms to Let'' (German: ''Ruhiges Heim mit Küchenbenutzung'') is a 1930 German
silent comedy film
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directed by
Carl Wilhelm
Carl Wilhelm (born 1872 in Vienna; died in London 1936), was a prolific German film director, film producer and screenwriter of the silent film era, at the end of which his career apparently entirely faded away and he vanished into obscurity.
L ...
and starring
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 ...
,
Elisabeth Pinajeff
Elisabeth Pinajeff (born Elizabeta Sergeyevna Pinayeva; russian: Елизавета Сергеевна Пинаева, 17 April 1900 – 31 December 1995) was a Russian-German actress.Prawer p.87
Selected filmography
* ''Count Cohn'' (1923)
* '' ...
and
Kurt Vespermann
Kurt Vespermann (1 May 1887 – 13 July 1957) was a German stage and film actor.
Career
Vespermann was born into an actor's family in Culmsee, West Prussia, Imperial Germany today Chełmża, Poland. Already his great-grandparents were ac ...
.
[Prawer p.87] The film's
art direction
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was by
Max Heilbronner
Max Heilbronner (1902–1964) was a German art director.Eisner p.348
Selected filmography
* ''The Path to God'' (1924)
* ''Written in the Stars (film), Written in the Stars'' (1925)
* ''Hunted People (1926 film), Hunted People'' (1926)
* ''How Do ...
and
Erich Zander
Erich Zander (11 April 1905 – 15 April 1991) was a German field hockey player who competed in the 1928 Summer Olympics and in the 1936 Summer Olympics. In 1928 he was a member of the German field hockey team, which won the bronze medal ...
. Its fully translated title is ''Rooms to Let in a Quiet Home, with Use of a Kitchen''. A domestic comedy, it was a late silent film just as the transition to
sound
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was taking place.
Cast
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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 Lotte
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Elisabeth Pinajeff
Elisabeth Pinajeff (born Elizabeta Sergeyevna Pinayeva; russian: Елизавета Сергеевна Пинаева, 17 April 1900 – 31 December 1995) was a Russian-German actress.Prawer p.87
Selected filmography
* ''Count Cohn'' (1923)
* '' ...
as Bella Donna
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Kurt Vespermann
Kurt Vespermann (1 May 1887 – 13 July 1957) was a German stage and film actor.
Career
Vespermann was born into an actor's family in Culmsee, West Prussia, Imperial Germany today Chełmża, Poland. Already his great-grandparents were ac ...
as Dr. Hans Weber
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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 Gattin
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Luise Bonn as Lola
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Henry Bender
Henry Bender (born Harry Bandheimer; 1867–1933) was a German stage and film actor.Chandler p. 272 He appeared in more than a hundred films during his career.
Selected filmography
* ''The Devil'' (1918)
* '' Madeleine'' (1919)
* ''Whitechapel'' ...
as Theodor Kannebach
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Johanna Ewald as Frau Piefke
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Heinrich Gotho
Heinrich Gotho (May 3, 1872 – August 28, 1938) was an Austrian film actor. Born in Dolina (now in Ukraine), he started his acting career at some provincial theatres until he found an engagement at the Neues Volkstheater in Berlin. The charact ...
as Herr Piefke
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Ellinor Gynt as Amalie Wasserstoff
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Ida Perry
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as Frau Amberg
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Fritz Schulz as Fritz Blitz
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Emmy Wyda
Emmy Wyda (2 March 1876 – 22 January 1942) was a German actress. She appeared in more than eighty films from 1913 to 1941.
Selected filmography
References
External links
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1876 births
1942 deaths
German film actresses
German si ...
as Fräulein Schmitz
References
Bibliography
*Prawer, S.S. ''Between Two Worlds: The Jewish Presence in German and Austrian Film, 1910–1933''. Berghahn Books, 2005.
External links
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1930 films
Films of the Weimar Republic
1930 drama films
German silent feature films
German drama films
Films directed by Carl Wilhelm
Films scored by Paul Dessau
German black-and-white films
Silent drama films
1930s German films
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