Chased by the Devil
Appearance
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Directed by | Viktor Tourjansky |
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Produced by | Georg Witt |
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Edited by | Lisbeth Neumann |
Music by | Franz Grothe |
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Distributed by | Bavaria Film |
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Running time | 100 minutes |
Country | West Germany |
Language | German |
Chased by the Devil (German: Vom Teufel gejagt) is a 1950 West German crime film directed by Viktor Tourjansky and starring Hans Albers, Willy Birgel and Lil Dagover.[1]
It was shot at the Bavaria Studios in Munich and on location around the city. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Franz Bi and Botho Hoefer.
Plot
[edit]A doctor discovers a new medical cure with dangerous side effects, and takes the drug himself to test its limitations.
Cast
[edit]- Hans Albers as Dr. Blank
- Willy Birgel as Dr. Fingal
- Lil Dagover as Frau Dakar
- Maria Holst as Dr. Cora Berndsen
- Heidemarie Hatheyer as Maria Hendrix
- Alexander Golling as Martin Karper
- Heinrich Gretler as Paul Hendrix
- Joseph Offenbach as Kommissar Beerbohm
- Otto Wernicke as Herr Dakar
- Walter Janssen
- Herbert Kroll
- Georg Lehn
- Karl Schaidler
- Arnulf Schroder
- Fritz Benscher
- Harald Mannl
- Edith Schultze-Westrum as Schwester Grete
- Ernst Stahl-Nachbaur as Professor Schmederlein
- Wolf Harro as Zollbeamter
- Alfons Kiechle as Zollinspektor
- Peter Russ as Pfleger 1
- Dietrich Thoms as Pfleger 2
References
[edit]- ^ Hake p. 224
Bibliography
[edit]- Hake, Sabine (2001). Popular Cinema of the Third Reich. Austin: University of Texas Press. ISBN 978-0-292-73458-6.
External links
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Categories:
- 1950 films
- West German films
- German crime drama films
- 1950 crime drama films
- 1950s German-language films
- Films directed by Victor Tourjansky
- Medical-themed films
- Mad scientist films
- Bavaria Film films
- Films shot at Bavaria Studios
- German black-and-white films
- 1950s German films
- Films scored by Franz Grothe
- German-language crime drama films
- 1950s German film stubs