''Terror of the Garrison'' (German: ''Der Schrecken der Garnison'') is a 1931 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
Felix Bressart
Felix Bressart (March 2, 1892 – March 17, 1949) was a German-American actor of stage and screen.
Life and career
Bressart (pronounced "BRESS-ert") was born in East Prussia, Germany (now part of Russia). His acting debut came in 1914 as Malvol ...
,
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 ...
and
Adele Sandrock
Adele Sandrock (; born Adele Feldern-Förster; 19 August 1863 – 30 August 1937) was a German-Dutch actress. After a successful theatrical career, she became one of the first German movie stars.
Early life
Sandrock was born in Rotterdam, Net ...
.
[Bock & Bergfelder p.63]
It was one of several military
farce
Farce is a comedy that seeks to entertain an audience through situations that are highly exaggerated, extravagant, ridiculous, absurd, and improbable. Farce is also characterized by heavy use of physical humor; the use of deliberate absurdity o ...
s directed by Boese in the early 1930s.
Cast
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Felix Bressart
Felix Bressart (March 2, 1892 – March 17, 1949) was a German-American actor of stage and screen.
Life and career
Bressart (pronounced "BRESS-ert") was born in East Prussia, Germany (now part of Russia). His acting debut came in 1914 as Malvol ...
as Musketier Kulicke
*
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 Antonie Bock
*
Adele Sandrock
Adele Sandrock (; born Adele Feldern-Förster; 19 August 1863 – 30 August 1937) was a German-Dutch actress. After a successful theatrical career, she became one of the first German movie stars.
Early life
Sandrock was born in Rotterdam, Net ...
as Erbprinzessin Adelheid
*
Tamara Desni
Tamara Desni (22 October 19137 February 2008) was a German-born British actress She appeared in films in the 1930s and 1940s.
Biography
Desni was born in Berlin as Tamara Brodsky, as Annemarie
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Olga Limburg
Olga Limburg (5 April 1881 – 7 March 1970) was a German theater and film actress. She began her artistic career in 1901 with a commitment at the Municipal Theatre of Poznan. Since 1902, she played at several of Berlin's leading theaters includi ...
as Institutsvorsteherin
*
Albert Paulig
Albert Paulig (14 January 1873 – 19 March 1933) was a German film actor who was popular during the silent era. Paulig made his first film in 1914. The following year he appeared in one of Ernst Lubitsch's first directorial attempts, '' A Trip on ...
as Major
*
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 Leutnant Schmidt
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Heinrich Fuchs Heinrich may refer to:
People
* Heinrich (given name), a given name (including a list of people with the name)
* Heinrich (surname), a surname (including a list of people with the name)
*Hetty (given name), a given name (including a list of peo ...
as Leutnant von Prittwitz
*
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 ...
as Stabsarzt
*
Fritz Spira
Fritz Spira (1 August 1881 – c. 1943) was an Austrian stage and film actor. He appeared frequently in films during the silent and early sound eras. Spira played the role of the Austrian Emperor Franz Josef in the 1926 film ''The Third Squadro ...
as von Nachtigall
*
Gaston Briese
Gaston Briese (19 August 1898 – 22 March 1953) was a German stage and film actor. He appeared in more than forty films during his career, which spanned from the late silent era to the mid-1940s. His final appearance was in the 1946 rubble film ...
as von Witte
*
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 Wachtmeister Brennecke
*
Karl Harbacher
Karl Harbacher (1879–1943) was an Austrian actor.
Selected filmography
* '' Miss Piccolo'' (1914)
* '' No Sin on the Alpine Pastures'' (1915)
* ''Fanny Elssler'' (1920)
* '' Das blaue Duell'' (1920)
* ''The Adventuress of Monte Carlo'' (1921)
* ...
as Bock - Photograph
References
Bibliography
* Bock, Hans-Michael & Bergfelder, Tim. ''The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema''. Berghahn Books, 2009.
External links
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1931 comedy films
German comedy films
1931 films
Films of the Weimar Republic
1930s German-language films
Films directed by Carl Boese
Military humor in film
Films set in the 1900s
German black-and-white films
1930s German films
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