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The Affair Gleiwitz

Der Fall Gleiwitz

1961
Germany
feature film - Drama
70 min. (1908 m.)
Location shooting / Berlin story line

Cast

Actor/-ess: Hannjo Hasse (Helmut Naujoks); Herwart Grosse (Gestapohead Müller); Hilmar Thate (KZ-prisoner); Georg Leopold (Volksdeutscher Wyczorek); Wolfgang Kalweit (Volksdeutscher Kraweit); Rolf Ripperger (Volksdeutscher Bieratzki); Christoph Beyertt (Volksdeutscher Sitte); Rudolf Woschik (Volksdeutscher Tutzauer); Manfred Günther (Volksdeutscher Kühnel); Rolf Ludwig (SS-doctor); Friedrich Richter (jewish professor); Günter Naumann (SS-man); Paul-Dolf Neis (SD-Head Gleiwitz); Heinz Schröder (SD-Head Oppeln); Margarete Taudte (castle owner); Georg Gudzent (castle owner); Heinz Isterheil (radio operator); Heinz Kögel (head of fencing school); Martin Angermann (bunker squad leader); Dieter Wallrabe (plain-clothed SS-man); Siegfried Göhler (plain-clothed SS-man); Achim Wolff; Jochen Diestelmann; Fritz-Ernst Fechner; Werner Dissel; Hans Bussenius; Axel Triebel; Kurt Mühlhardt; Horst Giesen; Wolfgang Borkenhagen; Marianne Christina Schilling; Harry Küster; Horst Friedrich; Harry Neumann; Theresia Wider; Horst Gill; Herbert Manz; Heinz Behrens; Hubert Hoelzke; Rudolf Seiß; Johannes Martin; Helga Kühnert; Rotraut Conrad; Ingrid Barkmann; Karl-Helge Hofstadt; Walter E. Fuß; Heinz Dhein; Dieter Schindelbauer

Direction

Director: Gerhard Klein

Assistant director: Erwin Stranka; Ilse Goydke

Writing

Screenplay: Günther Rücker; Wolfgang Kohlhaase

Script editor: Klaus Wischnewski

Camera & Light

Director of photography: Jan Čuřík

Camera operator: Jan Nemecek

Assistant camera / focus puller: Miloš Sauer; Roland Dressel

Still photographer: Kurt Schütt

Lighting design: Hans-Herbert Ikker

Decor

Production design: Gerhard Helwig

Set construction: Hermann Asmus

Prop master: Herbert Rother

Make-up artist: Klaus Becker; Eva Nendel

Costume design: Gerhard Kaddatz

Cutting & Mixing

Editing: Evelyn Carow

Sound: Peter Sonntag; Karl Tramburg

Music

Music: Kurt Schwaen

Production

Unit production manager: Erich Albrecht

Location manager: Manfred Peetz

Companies

Production company: DEFA-Studio für Spielfilme