''The Cuckoos'' (german: Die Kuckucks) is a 1949 German

comedy drama film Comedy drama, also known by the portmanteau ''dramedy'', is a genre of dramatic works that combines elements of comedy and drama. The modern, scripted-television examples tend to have more humorous bits than simple comic relief seen in a typical ...

directed by

Hans Deppe Hans Deppe (; 12 November 1897 – 23 September 1969) was a German actor and film director. Filmography As director As actor References External links * 1897 births 1969 deaths German male film actors German television dire ...

and starring

Ina Halley Ina Halley (January 9, 1927 – June 7, 1992) was a German actress. Selected filmography * '' The Cuckoos'' (1949) * '' The Merry Wives of Windsor'' (1950) * ''Five Suspects'' (1950) * ''Bluebeard'' (1951) * ''The Prince of Pappenheim'' (1952) * ' ...

Rainer Penkert Rainer Penkert (23 June 1921 – 11 April 2012, in Munich) was a German actor. Selected filmography * ''Our Miss Doctor'' (1940) - Bierlinger, Primaner * ''Menschen in Gottes Hand'' (1948) - Karl Renken * '' Anonymous Letters'' (1949) - Axel Brac ...

and

Carsta Löck Carsta Löck (28 December 1902 – 9 October 1993) was a German film actress. Selected filmography * '' Refugees'' (1933) * '' Ripening Youth'' (1933) * '' The Double Fiance'' (1934) * '' Trouble with Jolanthe'' (1934) * '' Police Report'' (19 ...

.Pinkert p. 237 It was shot at the

Babelsberg Studios Babelsberg Film Studio (german: Filmstudio Babelsberg), located in Potsdam-Babelsberg outside Berlin, Germany, is the second oldest large-scale film studio in the world only preceded by the Danish Nordisk Film (est. 1906), producing films since ...

East Berlin East Berlin was the ''de facto'' capital city of East Germany from 1949 to 1990. Formally, it was the Allied occupation zones in Germany, Soviet sector of Berlin, established in 1945. The American, British, and French sectors were known as ...

. The film was made in the Soviet Zone, in what would soon become

East Germany East Germany, officially the German Democratic Republic (GDR; german: Deutsche Demokratische Republik, , DDR, ), was a country that existed from its creation on 7 October 1949 until its dissolution on 3 October 1990. In these years the state ...

. 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 ...

Wilhelm Vorwerg Wilhelm Vorwerg (1899–1990) was a German art director who designed the sets for over fifty films including a number of Rialto Film's series of Edgar Wallace adaptations in the 1960s.Bergfelder p.256 Selected filmography * '' In the Name of th ...

Cast

as Inge Kuckert *

as Hanno Gersdorf * Günther Güssefeldt as Heinz Krüger * Aribert Wäscher as Eberhard Schultz *

as Wanda Merian - Kunstgewerblerin * Hans Neie as Rolf Kuckert *

Gertrud Wolle Gertrud Wolle (11 March 1891 – 6 July 1952) was a German film actress. Selected filmography * '' Die Insel der Glücklichen'' (1919) * ''Prince Cuckoo'' (1919) * ''Roswolsky's Mistress'' (1921) * '' A Glass of Water'' (1923) * ''Burglars'' (1 ...

as Frau Poehler - die Wirtin *

Marlise Ludwig Marlise is a given name. Notable people with the name include: * Marlise Keith (born 1972), South African artist * Marlise Simons, Dutch-born American journalist * Marlise Wendels (1923–2012), German operatic soprano {{given name Feminine gi ...

as Frau Bissig * Heinz Schröder as Max Kuckert * Nils-Peter Mahlau as Manfred Kuckert - Genannt Moritz *

Regine Fischer Regine () or Régine is a feminine given name. Regine is a German-French form of Regina, and Régine is a French form of Regina. People with the first name include: Regine * Regine Heitzer (born 1944), Austrian figure skater * Regine Hildebrandt ...

as Evchen Kuckert *

Thomas Dunskus Thomas may refer to: People * List of people with given name Thomas * Thomas (name) * Thomas (surname) * Saint Thomas (disambiguation) * Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, and Doctor of the Church * Thomas the A ...

as Erwin - Maurerlehrling * Knut Hartwig as Meister Miericke *

Günther Klapp Günther, Guenther, Ginther, Gunther, and the variants Günter, Guenter, Guenther, Ginter, and Gunter, are Germanic names derived from ''Gunthere, Gunthari'', composed of '' *gunþiz'' "battle" (Old Norse ''gunnr'') and ''heri, hari'' "army". Gu ...

as Klaus - Tischlerlehrling *

Michael Klein-Chevalier Michael may refer to: People * Michael (given name), a given name * Michael (surname), including a list of people with the surname Michael Given name "Michael" * Michael (archangel), ''first'' of God's archangels in the Jewish, Christian and ...

as Heini - Klemplerlehrling *

Klaus Deppe Klaus is a German, Dutch and Scandinavian given name and surname. It originated as a short form of Nikolaus, a German form of the Greek given name Nicholas. Notable persons whose family name is Klaus * Billy Klaus (1928–2006), American baseba ...

as Ferdinand - Schlosserlehrling * Horst Günter Fiegler as Egon - Radiomechanikerlehrling * Elly Burgmer as Jugendfürsorgerin * Liselotte Lieck as Dame in der Leihbibliothek *

Erich Dunskus Erich Adolf Dunskus (27 July 1890 – 25 November 1967) was a German film actor. He appeared in 170 films between 1927 and 1966. He was born in Pillkallen, East Prussia and died in Hagen, Germany. Selected filmography * '' The King of Pa ...

as Maurer *

Karl Hannemann Karl Hannemann (4 March 1895 – 13 November 1953) was a German film actor. Born in Freiberg, Saxony, Germany, he died at the age of 55 in Berlin. Selected filmography * ''The Graveyard of the Living'' (1921) * ''And Yet Luck Came'' (1923) * ''Un ...

as Wirt der 'Goldenen Traube' * Albert Johannes as Leiter der Jugendfürsorge *

Otto Matthies Otto is a masculine German given name and a surname. It originates as an Old High German short form (variants ''Audo'', '' Odo'', ''Udo'') of Germanic names beginning in ''aud-'', an element meaning "wealth, prosperity". The name is recorded f ...

as Oberkellner * Hans Joachim Schölermann as Schimkat * Walter Strasen as Polizist * Maria Grünfeld as Frau Nobel * Hilde Sonntag as Frau Pinselig * Isolde Laugs as Frau Zottel * Eleonore Tappert as Frau Dickbein *

Johannes Bergfeldt Johannes is a Medieval Latin form of the personal name that usually appears as "John" in English language contexts. It is a variant of the Greek and Classical Latin variants (Ιωάννης, ''Ioannes''), itself derived from the Hebrew name '' Yeh ...

as Herr Hahn *

Nora Boltenhagen Nora, NORA, or Norah may refer to: * Nora (name), a feminine given name People with the surname * Arlind Nora (born 1980), Albanian footballer * Pierre Nora (born 1931), French historian Places Australia * Norah Head, New South Wales, headlan ...

as Stenotypistin * Käthe Jöken-König as Krügers Wirtin * Fritz Bohnstedt as Maurer * Maria Hofen *

Herbert Weissbach Herbert may refer to: People Individuals * Herbert (musician), a pseudonym of Matthew Herbert Name * Herbert (given name) * Herbert (surname) Places Antarctica * Herbert Mountains, Coats Land * Herbert Sound, Graham Land Australia * Herber ...

* Willi Wietfeldt * Georg Helge * Ingrid Pankow *

Gerda Müller Gerda Müller (30 July 1894 – 26 April 1951) was a German stage actress. Life Gerda Müller was born near Rößel (since 1945 part of Poland) in rural East Prussia. She studied at the "Max Reinhardt" stage school (as it was known at th ...

* Siegfried Andrich *

Meta Rodrich Meta (from the Greek μετά, '' meta'', meaning "after" or "beyond") is a prefix meaning "more comprehensive" or "transcending". In modern nomenclature, ''meta''- can also serve as a prefix meaning self-referential, as a field of study or ende ...

References

Bibliography

* Karl, Lars & Skopal, Pavel. ''Cinema in Service of the State: Perspectives on Film Culture in the GDR and Czechoslovakia, 1945–1960''. Berghahn Books, 2015. * Pinkert, Anke. ''Film and Memory in East Germany''. Indiana University Press, 2008.

External links

* 1949 films 1949 comedy-drama films German comedy-drama films East German films 1940s German-language films Films directed by Hans Deppe Films shot at Babelsberg Studios German black-and-white films 1940s German films {{1940s-Germany-film-stub