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I Was a Criminal

1945
United States
feature film - Drama
71 min.
Location shooting / Berlin story line

Cast

Actor/-ess: Albert Bassermann (Wilhelm Voight, a Shoemaker); Mary Brian (Frau Obermueller, the Mayor's Wife); Eric Blore (Obermueller, the Mayor); Hermann Bing (Kilian, City Hall Guard); George Chandler (Kallenberg); Luis Alberni (Prison Guard); Wallis Clark (Friedrich Hoprecht); Else Bassermann (Mrs. Marie Hoprecht); Claud Allister (Railroad Employee); Bernard Gorcey (Railroad Employee); Hobart Cavanaugh (Rosenkrantz, the Treasurer); Frank McGlynn Sr. (Prison Warden); Frank Orth (Knoll, the Factory Personnel Manager); Siegfried Arno (Krakauer, the Second-Hand Dealer); Russell Hicks (Police Commisioner); Sheldon Bennett; Richard Alexander (Passport Official); Vera Lewis; Walter O. Stahl; Brian O'Hara; Geraldine Gray; Greta Doe; George Sherwood; George Eldredge; Lionel Belmore (Laughing Townsman); Robert Winton; Jack Chefe (Rosenkrantz' Assistant); Crane Whitley (Police Official); Douglas Rutherford; Ted Jacques; Max Willenz; Dan Stowell; Louis Adlon (Otto Muller - Suspect in Police Station); Paul Panzer (Police Official's Aide); Harry Wilson (Suspect in Police Station)

Direction

Director: Richard Oswald

Assistant director: Gerd Oswald

Writing

Screenplay: Ivan Goff

Based on: Carl Zuckmayer (Der Hauptmann von Köpenick); Albrecht Joseph (Der Hauptmann von Köpenick)

Camera & Light

Director of photography: John Alton

Decor

Production design: Gerd Oswald; Frank Paul Sylos

Cutting & Mixing

Editing: Dorothy Spencer

Sound: Karl Zint

Music

Music: Daniele Amfitheatrof

Production

Producer: John Hall

Unit production manager: Ben Berk

Miscellaneous

Advice: Rudi Feld (technical advisor)

Companies

Production company: John Hall Productions