''Schützenliesel'' is a 1954 West German period comedy film directed by Rudolf Schündler and starring

Herta Staal Herta Staal (29 March 1930 – 2 October 2021) was an Austrian film and television actress. Selected filmography * '' The Charming Young Lady'' (1953) * '' The Dancing Heart'' (1953) * '' My Sister and I'' (1954) * ''Clivia'' (1954) * ''The Gre ...

Helmuth Schneider Helmuth Schneider (18 December 1920 – 17 March 1972) was a German actor. Schneider portrayed the role of Uncle Dimitri in ''The White Horses''. He died in a traffic accident in Rio de Janeiro in 1972. Selected filmography *1944: '' Dr ...

and

Joe Stöckel Josef "Joe" Stöckel (27 September 1894, Munich – 14 June 1959) was a Germans, German actor, screenwriter and film director. Selected filmography Actor * ''The Villa in Tiergarten Park'' (1927) * ''The Champion Shot'' (1932) * ''S.A.-Mann Brand' ...

.Goble p.149 It is based on an operetta of the same title. It was shot at the Spandau Studios in West Berlin and on location at Mittenwald,

Garmisch-Partenkirchen Garmisch-Partenkirchen (; Bavarian: ''Garmasch-Partakurch''), nicknamed Ga-Pa, is an Alpine ski town in Bavaria, southern Germany. It is the seat of government of the district of Garmisch-Partenkirchen (abbreviated ''GAP''), in the O ...

and the

Lautersee Lautersee is a lake in Oberbayern, Bavaria, Germany. At an elevation of 1013 m, its surface area is 0.146 km2. It is situated on the southern slope of the Hoher Kranzberg above Mittenwald Mittenwald is a German municipality in the district ...

in Bavaria. The film's sets were designed by the

art director Art director is the title for a variety of similar job functions in theater, advertising, marketing, publishing, fashion, film industry, film and television, the Internet, and video games. It is the charge of a sole art director to supervise and ...

s Karl Weber and Helmut Nentwig.

Synopsis

In a small Bavarian town at the beginning of the twentieth century, pretty young Gretl is in love with a

border guard A border guard of a country is a national security agency that performs border security. Some of the national border guard agencies also perform coast guard (as in Federal Police (Germany), Germany, Guardia di Finanza, Italy or State Border Gua ...

despite the disapproval of her father. He resents the young man because he is the son of a woman who once spurned him. Things come to a head at the

Schützenfest A Schützenfest (, '' marksmen's festival'') is a traditional festival or fair featuring a target shooting competition in the cultures of Germany, the Netherlands and Switzerland. At a Schützenfest, contestants compete based on their shooting ...

, after the guard courageously rounds up a gang of smugglers.

Cast

as Gretl (Schützenliesel) *

as Stefan Brandner *

as Josef Mooshammer * Gunther Philipp as Baron von Simmering * Susi Nicoletti as Cornelia *

Willy Reichert Willy or Willie is a masculine, male given name, often a diminutive form of William or Wilhelm, and occasionally a nickname. It may refer to: People Given name or nickname * Willie Aames (born 1960), American actor, television director, and scree ...

as Eduard Steinhagen *

Gretl Fröhlich gretl is an open-source statistical package, mainly for econometrics. The name is an acronym for ''G''nu ''R''egression, ''E''conometrics and ''T''ime-series ''L''ibrary. It has both a graphical user interface (GUI) and a command-line inter ...

as Christa – Tochter von Steinhagen * Peter W. Staub as Norbert Feldmaier * Käthe Haack as Therese Brandner *

Edith Schollwer Edith is a feminine given name derived from the Old English words ēad, meaning 'riches or blessed', and is in common usage in this form in English, German, many Scandinavian languages and Dutch. Its French form is Édith. Contractions and vari ...

as Mathilde – Schwester von Steinhagen * Rudolf Carl as Hoteldirektor Wurzbach * Paul Hörbiger as Kaspar

References

Bibliography

* Goble, Alan. ''The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film''. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.

External links

* 1954 films 1954 comedy films German comedy films West German films 1950s German-language films Films directed by Rudolf Schündler 1950s German films Operetta films Films based on operettas Films shot at Spandau Studios Films shot in Bavaria 1950s historical films German historical films Films set in the 1900s Films set in Bavaria Films scored by Edmund Eysler Films scored by Herbert Trantow {{1950s-Germany-film-stub