Holiday From Myself (1934 film)

Holiday From Myself
Holiday From Myself
	Speelmans as the American businessman (centre) enjoying his escape from a hectic life.
German	Ferien vom Ich
Directed by	Hans Deppe
Written by	Paul Keller (novel); Peter Francke;
Produced by	Peter Ostermayr; Alfred Zeisler;
Starring	Hermann Speelmans; Carola Höhn; Georg H. Schnell;
Cinematography	Hugo von Kaweczynski
Edited by	Paul May
Music by	Marc Roland
Production; company	Olf Fjord-Film
Distributed by	UFA
Release date	7 December 1934;
Country	Germany
Language	German

Holiday From Myself (German: Ferien vom Ich) is a 1934 German comedy film directed by Hans Deppe and starring Hermann Speelmans, Carola Höhn, and Georg H. Schnell.^[1]

The film's sets were designed by the art directors Willi Herrmann and Hans Kuhnert. It was partly shot on location in Lower Saxony. Deppe himself directed a remake of the film in 1952.

Plot

A stressed American millionaire is advised by his Doctor to take a rest cure in the German countryside. The tycoon is so impressed that he buys an estate and turns it into a resort where other businessmen can take holidays from their normal lives. In the process he falls in love with the estate's former owner.

Cast

Hermann Speelmans as Georges B. Steffenson, American large-scale industrialist
Carola Höhn as Eva von Dornberg
Georg H. Schnell as Dr. Hartung, doctor
Hans Zesch-Ballot as John Stone, Secretary General of Steffenson
Ewald Wenck as Lehmann, Factotum of the guest house
Hans Adalbert Schlettow as Barthel, Gutsinspektor
Gina Falckenberg as Doris, John Stone's sister
Walter Steinbeck as Eberhardt Kreutzer, director
Fritz Genschow as Erich Bürger, clerk
Cilly Feindt as Elisabeth Schuhmacher
Paul Henckels as Hein Stumpe, justice
Werner Finck as Ottokar Geldern
Eduard Wesener as Robert Braun
Ernst Behmer as August Stempel, chancellery secretary
Else Reval as Klärchen - Stempel's wife
Vilma Bekendorf
Hermann Braun
Richard Handwerk
Resi Langer
Karin Luesebrink
Marianne Mewes
Carl Walther Meyer
Gerti Ober
Friedrich Franz Stampe
Hans Stiebner

References

^ Bock, Hans-Michael; Bergfelder, Tim, eds. (2009). The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema. New York: Berghahn Books. p. 193. ISBN 978-1-57181-655-9.

External links

Holiday From Myself at IMDb

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[1] Bock, Hans-Michael; Bergfelder, Tim, eds. (2009). The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema. New York: Berghahn Books. p. 193. ISBN 978-1-57181-655-9.

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