''Water for Canitoga'' (German: ''Wasser für Canitoga'') is a 1939
German
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western film
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directed by
Herbert Selpin
Herbert Selpin (29 May 1904 – 1 August 1942) was a German film director and screenwriter of light entertainment during the 1930s and 1940s. He is best known for his final film, the partly suppressed ''Titanic (1943 film), Titanic'', during the ...
and starring
Hans Albers
Hans Philipp August Albers (22 September 1891 – 24 July 1960) was a German actor and singer. He was the biggest male movie star in Germany between 1930 and 1960 and one of the most popular German actors of the twentieth century.
Early life
...
,
Charlotte Susa
Charlotte Susa (1 March 1898 – 28 July 1976) was a German actress.
Biography
Susa was born Charlotta Wegmüller near Memel, East Prussia and first appeared on a stage in 1915 at Tilsit. She chose her mother's maiden name "Susa" as her stage ...
and
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 ...
. The film is a "
Northern
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", set in
Canada
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in 1905 where an engineer is working to construct a new water supply system despite repeated attempts at sabotage.
[Hull p.223] It is based on a play by
Hans Rehfisch Hans Rehfisch (10 April 1891 – 9 June 1960), also known as Hans José Rehfisch or H.J. Rehfisch, was a German playwright, short story writer and film script writer.
Early life
Born to Jewish parents in Berlin, where his father Eugen Rehfisch ...
,
Otto Eis
Otto Eis (1903–1952) was an Austrian-born writer who worked on a number of screenplays. He was born Otto Eisler to a Jewish family in Budapest which was then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He later moved to Germany, where he was employed ...
and
Egon Eis
Egon Eis, born Egon Eisler (6 October 1910 – 6 September 1994) was an Austrian screenwriter. He wrote for nearly 50 films between 1930 and 1983. Eis was forced into exile during the Nazi era, but returned to work in the German film industry ...
.
It was made at the
Bavaria Studios
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History
The studios were constructed in the suburb of Geiselgasteig in 1919 shortly after the Firs ...
in
Munich
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. The film's sets were designed by the
art director
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It is the charge of a sole art director to supervise and ...
s
Wilhelm Depenau
Wilhelm Depenau (1884-1952) was a German art director.Reid p.99
Selected filmography
* ''The Most Beautiful Woman in the World'' (1924)
* ''Come Back, All Is Forgiven'' (1929)
* ''Viennese Waltz'' (1932)
* ''The Love Hotel'' (1933)
* '' The Doub ...
,
Ludwig Reiber
Ludwig Reiber (1904–1979) was a German art director.Capua p.159 The veteran Reiber worked on film and television set design from the silent era to the early 1970s. He was employed by the Munich-based Bavaria Film at the Emelka Studios. He worked ...
and
Arthur Schwarz
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.
Cast
*
Hans Albers
Hans Philipp August Albers (22 September 1891 – 24 July 1960) was a German actor and singer. He was the biggest male movie star in Germany between 1930 and 1960 and one of the most popular German actors of the twentieth century.
Early life
...
as Ingenieur Captain Oliver Montstuart / Bauingenieur Nicholsen
*
Charlotte Susa
Charlotte Susa (1 March 1898 – 28 July 1976) was a German actress.
Biography
Susa was born Charlotta Wegmüller near Memel, East Prussia and first appeared on a stage in 1915 at Tilsit. She chose her mother's maiden name "Susa" as her stage ...
as Lilly
*
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 Ingenieur Ingram
*
Peter Voß
Peter Voß (29 June 1891 – 9 January 1979) was a German film actor.
Partial filmography
* '' Love and Trumpets'' (1925) - Rekrut Dirmoser
* ''Struggle for the Matterhorn'' (1928) - Edward Whymper
* ''Diane - Die Geschichte einer Pariserin'' ( ...
as Chefingenieur Captain Gilbert Trafford
*
Hilde Sessak
Hilde Sessak (27 July 1915 – 17 April 2003) was a German actress who appeared in more than ninety film and television series during her career. She appeared in a number of films during the Nazi era including ''Quax the Crash Pilot'' (1941).Reim ...
as Sekretärin Winifred Gardener
*
Andrews Engelmann
Andrews Engelmann (23 March 1901 – 25 February 1992) was a Russian-born German actor. He worked primarily in Germany, where he specialised in playing Russian roles, but also appeared in a number of British films during his career. He was born as ...
as Ruski
*
Karl Dannemann
Karl Dannemann (22 March 1896 – 4 May 1945) was a German actor. He appeared in more than 50 films between 1934 and 1945.
Partial filmography
* ''Volldampf voraus!'' (1934) - Kramer, Obermaat
* ''Trouble with Jolanthe'' (1934) - Rupf, der ...
as Dyke
*
Hans Mierendorff
Hans Mierendorff (born Johannes Reingold Mierendorff; 30 June 1882 – 26 December 1955) was a German stage and film actor.
Selected filmography
* ''A Night of Horror'' (1916)
* '' Vengeance Is Mine'' (1916)
* ''Hilde Warren und der Tod'' ...
as Old Shatterhand
*
Heinrich Schroth
Heinrich August Franz Schroth (23 March 1871 – 14 January 1945) was a German stage and film actor.
Career
Schroth was born in Pirmasens, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. He made his acting debut at the Sigmaringen Royal Theatre in 1890. In 1894 h ...
as Gouverneur
*
Ernst Fritz Fürbringer
Ernst Fritz Fürbringer (27 July 1900 – 30 October 1988) was a German film actor. He appeared in 130 films between 1933 and 1983. He was born in Brunswick, Germany and died in Munich, Germany.
Selected filmography
* ''Die große und die ...
as Sheriff von Canitoga
*
Beppo Brem
Beppo Brem (11 March 1906 in Munich, German Empire – September 5, 1990 in Munich, West Germany) was a German film actor, who was in over 200 film and television productions between 1932 and 1990. He often played stereotypically Bavarian characte ...
as Sprengmeister bei der Sabotage
*
Willy Rösner
Willy Rösner (1893–1966) was a German stage and film actor.Parrill p.131
Selected filmography
* ''The King's Prisoner'' (1935)
* '' The Monastery's Hunter'' (1935)
* '' The Hunter of Fall'' (1936)
* ''Frau Sixta'' (1938)
* ''Water for Canitoga ...
as Bauarbeiter Reeve
*
Carl Wery
Carl Sebastian Martin Wery (born Wery de Lemans; 7 August 1897 in Trostberg, Upper Bavaria – 14 March 1975 in Munich) was a German actor.
Selected filmography
* ''No Day Without You'' (1933)
* ''Anna and Elizabeth'' (1933) - Annas Vater
...
as Vorarbeiter Westbrook
*
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as Sprengmeister Reechy
*
Katja Bennefeld
Katja Bennefeld was a German film actress, active in the 1930s.Giesen p.202
Selected filmography
* '' Impossible Love'' (1932)
* '' Eight Girls in a Boat'' (1932)
* ''The Champion of Pontresina'' (1934)
* '' An Evening Visit'' (1934)
* '' I for Y ...
as Straßenmädchen in der Silvesternacht
*
Peter Busse
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as Silvesterfeiernder
*
Henry Pleß
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as Vormann an der Pressluftzentrale
*
Fritz Reiff
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Bavaria Film is a German film production and film distribution, ...
as Ormand, Adjutant des Gouverneurs
*
Arthur Reinhardt
Arthur Reinhardt (17 April 1893 – 16 December 1973) was a German actor.Kay Weniger
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as Baustellenarbeiter
*
Ernst Rotmund
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Selected filmography
References
External links
*
1886 births
1955 deaths
German male film actors
...
as Direktor
*
Herta de Salvador as Barfrau
*
Arnulf Schröder
Arnulf Schröder (born Munich, June 13, 1903 - died there, December 22, 1960) was a German actor and director. He studied at the Oberrealschule with Claire Bauroff. He spent some of his career working in the cabarets of Berlin.
Selected filmo ...
as Lagerarzt
*
Bruno Ziener
Bruno Ziener (11 June 1870 – 9 February 1941) was a German stage and film actor and director. He appeared in over 100 films between 1913 and 1941. He also directed 28 silent films such as '' The Flight into Death'' (1921).Grange p. 95
Selected ...
as Professor Deutsch
*
Louis Brody
Louis Brody (born Ludwig M'bebe Mpessa; 15 February 1896 – 11 February 1951) was a Cameroonian-born German film actor, musician and showfighter.
Brody was born in Douala, in the German colony of Kamerun, now Cameroon. His career began in the 1 ...
as Johnny
References
Bibliography
* Hull, David Stewart. ''Film in the Third Reich: a study of the German cinema, 1933-1945''. University of California Press, 1969.
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1930s historical films
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1930s German-language films
Films directed by Herbert Selpin
Films set in 1905
Northern (genre) films
German films based on plays
Bavaria Film films
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