A City Upside Down
1933 film
- S. Z. Sakall
- Jenny Jugo
- Hermann Thimig
- Friedel Buckow [de]
- Viktor Gertler
- Putty Krafft
Production
company
company
Elite Tonfilm-Produktion
- Metropol-Filmverleih
- Lux Film (Austria)
Release date
- 21 January 1933 (1933-01-21)
Running time
A City Upside Down (German: Eine Stadt steht Kopf) is a 1933 German comedy film directed by Gustaf Gründgens and starring S.Z. Sakall, Jenny Jugo and Hermann Thimig.[1] It is based on the 1836 play The Government Inspector by Nikolai Gogol. A separate Czech adaptation of the story The Inspector General was made the same year.[2]
The film's sets were designed by the art directors Rochus Gliese and Gabriel Pellon. Paul Martin worked as assistant director on the film. Some location shooting took place in Staufen im Breisgau. This movie is set in the modern day (the 1930s).
Cast
- S. Z. Sakall as Der Bürgermeister
- Jenny Jugo as Trude, seine Tochter
- Hermann Thimig as Heinz, ein junger Mann
- Heinrich Schroth as Revisionsrat
- Berthe Ostyn as Sein 'blondes Gift'
- Aribert Wäscher
- Lotte Stein as Frau Cruse
- Maya Bruhns as Tochter
- Fritz Kampers as Herr Güterinspektor
- Carla Bartheel as Seine Frau
- Paul Henckels as Herr Berger
- Theo Lingen as Fred, ein Sohn
- Hans Deppe as Schulrat Klein
- Arthur Meinzer [de] as Sanitätsrat Strucker
- Herbert Paulmüller [de] as Amtsdiener Bieber
- Friedrich Honna [de] as Innkeeper
- Lotte Loebinger [de] as Lehrerin
- Renate Bergk as Renate
- Laurie Lane [de] as Sophie
- Willi Schur as Paul
References
- ^ Grange 2008, p. 404.
- ^ Waldman 2008, p. 132.
Bibliography
- Grange, William (2008). Cultural Chronicle of the Weimar Republic. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-5967-8.
- Waldman, Harry (2008). Nazi Films in America, 1933–1942. McFarland. ISBN 978-0-7864-3861-7.
External links
- A City Upside Down at IMDb
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- A City Upside Down (Germany, 1933)
- The Inspector General (Czechoslovakia, 1933)
- Antek policmajster (Poland, 1935)
- The Inspector General (USA, 1949)
- Afsar (India, 1950)
- The Inspector-General (Soviet Union, 1952)
- Tamu Agung (Indonesia, 1955)
- President Panchaksharam (India, 1959)
- Roaring Years (Italy, 1962)
- Calzonzin Inspector (Mexico, 1974)
- Reviisori (Finland, 1975)
- Incognito from St. Petersburg (Soviet Union, 1977)
- De Boezemvriend (Netherlands, 1982)
- Inspector (Russian Federation, 1996)
- Chlestakows Wiederkehr (opera)
- Inspecting Carol (play)
- Der Revisor (opera)
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