Anuschka (film)

Anuschka
Anuschka
	German film poster
Directed by	Helmut Käutner
Written by	Helmut Käutner; Axel Eggebrecht;
Based on	Anuschka by Georg Fraser
Produced by	Gerhard Staab
Starring	Hilde Krahl; Siegfried Breuer; Friedl Czepa;
Cinematography	Erich Claunigk
Edited by	Ludolf Grisebach
Music by	Bernhard Eichhorn
Production; company	Bavaria Film
Distributed by	Bavaria Film
Release date	24 March 1942;
Running time	101 minutes
Country	Germany
Language	German

Anuschka is a 1942 German historical drama film directed by Helmut Käutner, and starring Hilde Krahl, Siegfried Breuer and Friedl Czepa.^[1] It was shot at the Barrandov Studios in Prague and Cinecitta in Rome. Location filming took place in Carinthia. The film's sets were designed by art director Ludwig Reiber.

Synopsis

In rural Moravia, Anuschka loses her family farm when her father dies heavily in debt. She takes up an offer to go to Vienna to work as a maid to the surgeon Felix von Hartberg who treated her father following an accident. However, his wife Eva is having an affair and when she gives her husband's gift of an expensive lighter to her lover, she allows Anuschka to wrongly take the blame.

Cast

Hilde Krahl as Anuschka Hordak
Siegfried Breuer as Prof. Felix von Hartberg
Friedl Czepa as Eva von Hartberg
Rolf Wanka as Dr. Sascha Wendt
Ellen Hille as Lina
Anton Pointneras Leopold
Beppo Schwaiger as Jaro Nowarek
Elise Aulinger as Maria Nowarek
Paula Menari as Frau Huber
Fritz Odemar as Baron Fery
Karl Etlinger as Lawyer Virag
Lotte Lang as Mizzi, prostitute
Oskar Höcker as Police Detective
Michael von Newlinsky as Wendt's Manservant
Herta Neupert as Young Woman who informs Anuschka of the fire
Karl Hellmer
Ludwig Auer
Lucie Becker
Marianne Doerwald
Irma Evert
Harry Hardt
Georg Irmer
Alfred Werner Koekh
Irene Kohl
Hans Kratzer
Ruth Kruse
Karin Luesebrink
Anni Markart
Franz Pfaudler
Klaus Pohl
Evan-Friedl Priehler
Martha Salm
Arnulf Schröder
Maria Sigg as Flower-girl at Gypsy Cabaret
Franz Stick as Pepi, manager of Faschingsball

References

^ Hull, David Stewart (1969). Film in the Third Reich: A Study of the German Cinema, 1933–1945. Berkeley: University of California Press. p. 237. ISBN 978-0-520-01489-3.

Bibliography

Rentschler, Eric. The Ministry of Illusion: Nazi Cinema and Its Afterlife. Harvard University Press, 1996.

External links

Anuschka at IMDb
Anuschka Full movie with English subtitles at Deutsche Filmothek

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[1] Hull, David Stewart (1969). Film in the Third Reich: A Study of the German Cinema, 1933–1945. Berkeley: University of California Press. p. 237. ISBN 978-0-520-01489-3.

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