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Man of Straw

Der Untertan

1951
Germany
feature film - Comedy
109 min. (2963 m.)
Location shooting / Berlin story line

Cast

Actor/-ess: Werner Peters (Diederich Heßling); Paul Esser (von Wulkow); Blandine Ebinger (Mrs von Wulkow); Erich Nadler (father Heßling); Gertrud Bergmann (mother Heßling); Carola Braunbock (Emmi Heßling); Emmy Burg (Magda Heßling); Renate Fischer (Guste Daimchen); Friedrich Maurer (Göpel); Friedel Nowack (Mrs Göpel); Sabine Thalbach (Agnes Göpel); Hannsgeorg Laubenthal (Mahlmann); Eduard von Winterstein (father Buck); Raimund Schelcher (Dr. Wolfgang Buck); Paul Mederow (Dr. Heuteuffel); Friedrich Richter (Lauer); Richard Landeck (Neumann); Fritz Staudte (Kühlemann); Oskar Höcker (Kühlemann); Oskar Höcker (Fritzsche); Ernst Legal (Zillich); Wolfgang Kühne (Dr. Mennicke); Axel Triebel (Major Kunze); Wolfgang Heise (Leutnant von Brietzen); Arthur Schröder; Friedrich Gnaß (Napoleon Fischer); Ernst Wehlau (Sötbier); Kurt-Otto Fritsch (young worker); Viola Recklies (young worker); Georg August Koch; Heinz Keuneke (Hornung); Peter Petersz (Wiebel); Antje Ruge; Albert Venohr; Hans Rose; Anna-Maria Besendahl; Hilma Schlüter; Steffie Spira; Käthe Scharf; Harry Riebauer; Egon Brosig; Musy Haffner; Edgar Pauli; Franz Lichtenauer; Charles-Hans Vogt; Hans Schiller; Günther Ballier; Lutz Götz; Fredy Barten; Hans Olaf Moser; Christine Traute-Wiere; Egon Vogel; Walter Strasen; Walter B. Schulz; Ludwig Sachs; Günther Polensen; Johannes Maus; Bella Waldritter; Dorothea Bracks; Elka Hedrich; Hans Sanden; Werner Kunkel; Hannjo Hasse; Horst Schönemann; Edgar Pauly; Georg Helge; Willi Wietfeldt; Friedrich Schrader; Carlo Kluge; Kurt Wilde; Reginald Iwinski; Friedrich Teitge; Arthur Schilsky; Günter Polsensen; Gerd Wolfrum; Martin Rickelt

Direction

Director: Wolfgang Staudte

Assistant director: Hanna Bark; Werner Reinhold

Writing

Screenplay: Wolfgang Staudte; Fritz Staudte

Based on: Heinrich Mann (novel)

Script editor: Hans Robert Bortfeldt

Camera & Light

Director of photography: Robert Baberske

Assistant camera / focus puller: Günter Marczinkowsky

Still photographer: Eduard Neufeld

Decor

Production design: Erich Zander; Karl Schneider

Make-up artist: Alois Strasser; Willy Roloff

Costume design: Walter Schulze-Mittendorff

Cutting & Mixing

Editing: Johanna Rosinski

Sound: Erich Schmidt

Music

Music: Horst Hanns Sieber

Production

Unit production manager: Willi Teichmann

Location manager: Fritz Brix; William Neugebauer

Companies

Production company: DEFA Deutsche Film-Aktiengesellschaft