''The Silent Guest'' (german: Der stumme Gast) is a 1945 German
crime film
Crime films, in the broadest sense, is a film genre inspired by and analogous to the crime fiction literary genre. Films of this genre generally involve various aspects of crime and its detection. Stylistically, the genre may overlap and combine ...
directed by
Harald Braun
Harald Braun (26 April 1901 – 24 September 1960) was a German film director, screenwriter and film producer. He directed 21 films between 1942 and 1960.
Selected filmography
* ''The Roundabouts of Handsome Karl'' (dir. Carl Froelich, 193 ...
and starring
René Deltgen
Renatus Heinrich Deltgen born 30 April 1909 in Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg; died 29 January 1979 in Cologne, West Germany) was a Luxembourgian stage and film actor
An actor or actress is a person who portrays a character in a performance ...
,
Gisela Uhlen
Gisela Uhlen (16 May 1919 – 16 January 2007) was a German film actress and occasional screen writer.
Biography
Uhlen was born Gisela Friedlinde Schreck (German national library entry) in Leipzig, Germany as fourth child of Luise Frieda and ...
and
Rudolf Fernau
Rudolf Fernau (7 January 1898 – 4 November 1985) was a German film actor. He appeared in 53 films between 1936 and 1982. He was born and died in Munich, Germany.
Selected filmography
* '' The Traitor'' (1936) - Fritz Brockau
* '' In the ...
.
[Bock & Bergfelder p. 23] It was one of the final films released during the
Nazi era
Nazi Germany (lit. "National Socialist State"), ' (lit. "Nazi State") for short; also ' (lit. "National Socialist Germany") (officially known as the German Reich from 1933 until 1943, and the Greater German Reich from 1943 to 1945) was ...
. It received its Austrian premiere in
Vienna
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in 1950.
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 ...
Emil Hasler
Emil Hasler (November 8, 1901 – January 15, 1986) was a German art director who worked on more than a hundred films during his career. These included a number of Weimar classics such as ''Diary of a Lost Girl, M'' and ''The Blue Angel''.Prawe ...
,
Carl Ludwig Kirmse
Carl Ludwig Kirmse (1888–1982) was a German art director who worked prolifically on films during the silent and sound eras.Giesen p.220
Selected filmography
* ''The House of Torment'' (1921)
* '' Country Roads and the Big City'' (1921)
* '' T ...
and
Walter Kutz
Walter Kutz (1904 – 1983) was a German art director.Langford p.223
Selected filmography
* ''Nora'' (1944)
* '' Dreaming'' (1944)
* ''The Silent Guest'' (1945)
* ''And the Heavens Above Us'' (1947)
* ''Nights on the Nile'' (1949)
* ''The Chaste ...
.
Cast
*
René Deltgen
Renatus Heinrich Deltgen born 30 April 1909 in Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg; died 29 January 1979 in Cologne, West Germany) was a Luxembourgian stage and film actor
An actor or actress is a person who portrays a character in a performance ...
as Matthias Radscheck
*
Gisela Uhlen
Gisela Uhlen (16 May 1919 – 16 January 2007) was a German film actress and occasional screen writer.
Biography
Uhlen was born Gisela Friedlinde Schreck (German national library entry) in Leipzig, Germany as fourth child of Luise Frieda and ...
as Lisa Radscheck
*
Rudolf Fernau
Rudolf Fernau (7 January 1898 – 4 November 1985) was a German film actor. He appeared in 53 films between 1936 and 1982. He was born and died in Munich, Germany.
Selected filmography
* '' The Traitor'' (1936) - Fritz Brockau
* '' In the ...
as Oskar Kampmann
*
Jaspar von Oertzen as Gendarm Geelhaar
*
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'' (1934) ...
as Marianne Ebeling
*
Willi Rose
Wilhelm Bernhard Max Rose (4 February 1902 – 16 June 1978) was a German actor. He appeared in more than one hundred films from 1936 to 1978.
Selected filmography
References
External links
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1902 births
1978 deaths
German male fi ...
as Eduard, Ladengehilfe
*
Ethel Reschke
Ethel Reschke (24 April 1911 – 5 June 1992) was a German actress. She appeared in more than 70 films and television shows between 1931 and 1977.
Selected filmography
* ''Mädchen in Uniform'' (1931)
* ''Paul and Pauline'' (1936)
* ''By a ...
as Trude, Kaltmamsell
*
Herbert Hübner
Herbert Hübner (6 February 1889 – 27 January 1972) was a German stage and film actor. He appeared in more than 150 films between 1921 and 1966. He was born in Breslau, Germany (now Wrocław, Poland) and died in Munich, Germany.
Selected fil ...
as Von Wedelstedt, Gutsbesitzer
*
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*Friedhelm Busse (1929–2008), German national socialist politician and activist
* Friedhelm Döhl (born 1936), German composer and professor of music
* Friedhelm Eronat (born 1953), Geneva- ...
as Dieter von Wedelstedt
*
Sigrid Becker as Helene, Magd
*
Walter Janssen
Walter Janssen (7 February 1887 – 1 January 1976) was a German film actor and director. He appeared in more than 160 films between 1917 and 1970.
Selected filmography
* '' The Dancer'' (1919)
* ''Destiny'' (1921)
* ''Wandering Souls'' (1 ...
as Eccelius, Apotheker
*
Ingolf Kuntze
Ingolf Kuntze (1890–1952) was a German stage and film actor.Giesen p.217 He was active as a character actor, appearing in supporting roles in a number of films during the Nazi era.
Selected filmography
* ''A Woman Branded'' (1931)
* '' And Who ...
as Prosecutor
*
Josef Sieber
Josef Sieber (28 April 1900 – 3 December 1962) was a German film actor.
Selected filmography
* ''Pappi'' (1934)
* ''Punks Arrives from America'' (1935)
* ''Joan of Arc'' (1935)
* ''The Gypsy Baron'' (1935)
* ''The Last Four on Santa Cruz'' (193 ...
as Jakob, Knecht
*
Toni Impekoven as Vohwinkel, Gerichtsrat
*
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 Buggenhagen
*
Arnim Suessenguth Arnim may refer to:
People
* Bettina von Arnim (1785-1859), born Elisabeth Catharina Ludovica Magdalena Brentano, German writer and novelist
* Ludwig Achim von Arnim (1781–1831), German poet and novelist
* Hans-Jürgen von Arnim (1889-1962), Germ ...
as Siebenkorn, Schmuggler
*
Hella Thornegg
Hella Tornegg was a German stage and film actress.
Selected filmography
* '' Lehmann's Honeymoon'' (1916)
* '' Spring Storms'' (1918)
* ''Film Kathi'' (1918)
* '' Nocturne of Love'' (1919)
* ''The Monastery of Sendomir'' (1919)
* ''Blackmailed ...
as Witwe Wagenbrett
*
Gert Geiger as Wonnekamp
References
Bibliography
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External links
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1945 films
1945 crime films
German crime films
Films of Nazi Germany
1940s German-language films
Films directed by Harald Braun
Films based on German novels
Films based on works by Theodor Fontane
UFA GmbH films
German black-and-white films
1940s German films
Films scored by Werner Eisbrenner
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