''The Beginning Was Sin'' (German: ''Am Anfang war es Sünde'') is a 1954 West-German-Yugoslavian

drama film In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. The drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular ...

directed by

František Čáp František Čáp (7 December 1913 – 12 January 1972), also known as Franz Cap in Germany, was a Czech and later a Yugoslav film director and screenwriter. He directed 32 films between 1939 and 1970. Having created Slovene film classics such as ...

and starring Ruth Niehaus,

Viktor Staal Viktor Staal (17 February 1909 – 4 June 1982) was an Austrian film actor. Selected filmography * '' Everything for the Company'' (1935) * '' Eva, the Factory Girl'' (1935) * '' Das Einmaleins der Liebe'' (1935) * '' The World's in Love'' (1935 ...

and Hansi Knoteck. The film's sets were designed by the

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

Mirko Lipuzic.

Cast

* Ruth Niehaus as Rosalia *

as Jacob, farmer * Hansi Knoteck as Anna, his wife *

Peter Carsten Peter Carsten (30 April 1928 – 20 April 2012) was a German actor and film producer. He appeared in 90 films between 1953 and 1999, including in supporting roles, ''Dark of the Sun'' (1968), ''Hannibal Brooks'' (1969), ''Madame Bovary (196 ...

as Marko, farmworker * Laya Raki as gypsy dancer *

Edith Schultze-Westrum Edith Käthe Elisabeth Schultze-Westrum (30 December 1904 – 20 March 1981) was a German film actress. She appeared in more than 60 films between 1932 and 1979. These included the role of Mrs. Hudson in the 1962 film ''Sherlock Holmes and ...

as Rosalia's mother *

Franz Muxeneder Franz Muxeneder (19 October 1920 – 3 January 1988) was an Austrian actor. He appeared in more than one hundred films from 1948 to 1987. Muxeneder is best known in Great Britain for his part in the Yugoslav-German television series '' The White ...

as Toni, farmworker * Zvonimir Rogoz *

Petra Unkel Petra Unkel (3 March 1925 – 2001), also known as Petra Unkel-Klinder, was a Hungarian-born actress of German film, singer, voice actress, radio spokesperson and cabaret artist, who was active in the industry from 1929 until 1958. Life and ca ...

as Therese, maid *Olga Bedjanic as Dora * Frane Milčinski *Lojze Potokar * Hans Pössenbacher as farmer *Mila Kacic *Boris Kralj

References

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* West German films 1954 drama films German drama films Yugoslav drama films Films directed by František Čáp Films based on works by Guy de Maupassant Constantin Film films Yugoslav black-and-white films German black-and-white films 1950s German films 1950s German-language films Films scored by Bojan Adamič {{1950s-Germany-drama-film-stub