Financial Opportunists

1934 film
  • 26 January 1934 (1934-01-26)
Running time
84 minutesCountryGermanyLanguageGerman

Financial Opportunists (German: Konjunkturritter) is a 1934 German comedy film directed by Fritz Kampers and starring Weiss Ferdl, Sabine Peters and Hans Adalbert Schlettow.[1] The film's sets were designed by the art directors Gustav A. Knauer and Alexander Mügge. The title was a well-known phrase to attack Jews, and was one of the first openly anti-Semitic films produced under the Nazi regime.[2]

Cast

  • Weiss Ferdl as Ferdinand Mühlbauer
  • Sabine Peters as Gretl, seine Tochter
  • Hans Adalbert Schlettow as Dr. Lehmann, Rechtsanwalt
  • Otto Wallburg as Untermeier, Grundstücksspekulant
  • Kurt Vespermann as Dr. Günther, Rechtsanwalt
  • Theo Lingen as Glaser, Grundstücksspekulant
  • Walter Steinbeck as Direktor Messerschmidt
  • Eugen Rex as Büngermann
  • Käthe Haack as Frau Hornstedt
  • Hans Leibelt as Klagemann, beider Hauptgläubiger
  • Charly Berger as Ober

References

  1. ^ Niven p.283
  2. ^ Waldman p.75

Bibliography

  • Niven, Bill. Hitler and Film: The Führer's Hidden Passion. Yale University Press, 2018.
  • Waldman, Harry. Nazi Films in America, 1933–1942. McFarland, 2008.

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