''When Men Cheat'' (german: Wenn Männer schwindeln) is a 1950 West 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
Grethe Weiser
Grethe Weiser (; 27 February 1903 – 2 October 1970) was a German actress.
Biography
Born in Hanover, she spent her childhood in Dresden. She escaped from her dominant and sometimes violent father by marrying a Jewish confectionery manufactu ...
,
Kurt Seifert
Kurt Seifert (4 July 1903 – 3 December 1950) was a German actor, singer, comedian, and in his later years, theatre director. Seifert was known as an operetta singer.O'Brien p.32 From 1934 onwards he appeared in a significant number of feature f ...
and
Jeanette Schultze
Jeanette Schultze (1931–1972) was a German film actress. She played leading roles in a number of post-war Austrian and West German films such as '' Martina'' (1949) and '' A Night in Venice'' (1953).Goble p.446 Several of her appearances were in ...
.
[Bock & Bergfelder p. 519]
It was made at the
Tempelhof Studios
The Tempelhof Studios are a film studio located in Tempelhof in the German capital of Berlin. They were founded in 1912, during the silent era, by German film pioneer Alfred Duskes, who built a glass-roofed studio on the site with financial back ...
in
Berlin
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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
Willi Herrmann
Willi Herrmann (1893–1968) was a German art director.
Selected filmography
* '' Madness'' (1919)
* '' Child on the Open Road'' (1919)
* '' Jettatore'' (1919)
* ''Humanity Unleashed'' (1920)
* '' The Secrets of Berlin'' (1921)
* ''The Maharaja ...
and
Heinrich Weidemann
Heinrich Weidemann (1899–1982) was a German art director.Lowe p.179
Selected filmography
* '' The Gambler'' (1938)
* '' The Swedish Nightingale'' (1941)
* ''Ghost in the Castle'' (1947)
* ''The Trip to Marrakesh'' (1949)
* ''Scandal at the Emba ...
.
Cast
*
Grethe Weiser
Grethe Weiser (; 27 February 1903 – 2 October 1970) was a German actress.
Biography
Born in Hanover, she spent her childhood in Dresden. She escaped from her dominant and sometimes violent father by marrying a Jewish confectionery manufactu ...
as Frau Bamberg
*
Kurt Seifert
Kurt Seifert (4 July 1903 – 3 December 1950) was a German actor, singer, comedian, and in his later years, theatre director. Seifert was known as an operetta singer.O'Brien p.32 From 1934 onwards he appeared in a significant number of feature f ...
as Arthur Bamberg, Seidenfabrikant, ihr Mann
*
Jeanette Schultze
Jeanette Schultze (1931–1972) was a German film actress. She played leading roles in a number of post-war Austrian and West German films such as '' Martina'' (1949) and '' A Night in Venice'' (1953).Goble p.446 Several of her appearances were in ...
as Angelika, Studentin u. 'Taxigirl'
*
Emil Suhrmann
Emil or Emile may refer to:
Literature
*''Emile, or On Education'' (1762), a treatise on education by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
* ''Émile'' (novel) (1827), an autobiographical novel based on Émile de Girardin's early life
*''Emil and the Detective ...
as Paul, Bambergs Freund
*
Ida Wüst
Ida Wüst (; 10 October 1884 – 4 October 1958) was a German stage and film actress whose career was prominent in the 1920s and 1930s with Universum Film AG (UFA).
Life and career
Little is known about Ida Wüst's early childhood. She discovere ...
as Frau Schröder, Zimmervermieterin
*
Rudolf Platte
Rudolf Antonius Heinrich Platte (12 February 1904 – 18 December 1984) was a German actor.
Biography
Born in Hörde, Westphalia (today part of Dortmund) the son of a merchant, his family moved to Hildesheim three years later. Rudolf left scho ...
as Pauls Diener
*
Ruth Lommel
Ruth Lommel (1918–2012) was a German stage and film actress.Giesen p. 185 She was the daughter of the actor Ludwig Manfred Lommel. Her brother Ulli Lommel also became an actor, while another brother Manuel Lommel is a cinematographer.
She w ...
*
Alexa von Porembsky
Alexa von Porembsky (5 June 1906 - 18 August 1981) was a Hungarian-born German actress.
Selected filmography
* ''Leontine's Husbands'' (1928)
* ''Woman in the Moon'' (1929) - Eine Veilchenverkäuferin
* ''Road to Rio'' (1931) - Die Unerfahrene ...
*
Ute Sielisch
*
Walter Gross
*
Fritz Böttger
Fritz Böttger (1902–1981) was a German actor, screenwriter and film director.Reid p.96
Selected filmography
Actor
* '' Escape in the Dark'' (1939)
* '' Men Are That Way'' (1939)
* ''The Three Codonas'' (1940)
* ''Love Premiere'' (1943)
* '' ...
*
Franz-Otto Krüger
Franz-Otto Krüger (1 April 1917 – 17 March 1988) was a German film and television actor. Krüger already started his acting at Berlin theatres in 1934, but his career was interrupted by his service in the Second World War. He appeared in over ...
*
Oscar Sabo
Oscar Sabo (29 August 1881, in Vienna – 2 May 1969, in Berlin) was an Austrian actor.
Selected filmography
* '' Jettatore'' (1919)
* ''The False Dimitri'' (1922)
* '' Storm in a Water Glass'' (1931)
* ''The Little Escapade'' (1931)
* '' The Span ...
*
Ellen Hille
Ellen is a female given name, a diminutive of Elizabeth, Eleanor, Elena and Helen. Ellen was the 609th most popular name in the U.S. and the 17th in Sweden in 2004.
People named Ellen include:
*Ellen Adarna (born 1988), Filipino actress
*Ellen A ...
References
Bibliography
* Bock, Hans-Michael & Bergfelder, Tim. ''The Concise CineGraph. Encyclopedia of German Cinema''. Berghahn Books, 2009.
External links
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1950 films
West German films
German comedy films
1950 comedy films
1950s German-language films
Films directed by Carl Boese
Films shot at Tempelhof Studios
Adultery in films
German black-and-white films
1950s German films
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