The Chaste Libertine

The Chaste Libertine
Georg Thomalla and Dorit Kreysler
Directed by	Carl Boese
Written by	Franz Arnold (play) Ernst Bach (play) Curth Flatow Bobby E. Lüthge
Produced by	Artur Brauner
Starring	Georg Thomalla Joe Stöckel Grethe Weiser
Cinematography	Herbert Körner
Edited by	Johanna Meisel
Music by	Michael Jary
Production company	CCC Film
Distributed by	Prisma Film
Release date	17 July 1952
Running time	94 minutes
Country	West Germany
Language	German

The Chaste Libertine (German: Der keusche Lebemann) is a 1952 West German comedy film directed by Carl Boese and starring Georg Thomalla, Joe Stöckel and Grethe Weiser.^[1] It was based on a popular stage farce of the same title by Franz Arnold and Ernst Bach which had previously been turned into the 1931 film The Night Without Pause.

It was made at the Spandau Studios of Artur Brauner's CCC Films. The film's sets were designed by Emil Hasler and Walter Kutz.

Synopsis[]

When his wife suspects Julius Seibold her circus-owning husband of having an affair, he tries to allay her suspicions by suggesting that it is really his young assistant Max who is having a relationship with the woman, and that he is in fact a playboy. This invented lifestyle in turn attracts the Siebold's daughter to Max.

Cast[]

• Georg Thomalla as Max Stieglitz
• Joe Stöckel as Julius Seibold
• Grethe Weiser as Regine Seibold
• Marianne Koch as Gerty Seibold
• Karl Schönböck as Dr. Fellner
• Dorit Kreysler as Rita Reiner
• Ethel Reschke as Dolly
• Rolf Weih as Riemann
• Ursula Herking as Anna
• Bully Buhlan as Singer
• Wolfgang Jansen

References[]

Bibliography[]

• Hans-Michael Bock and Tim Bergfelder. The Concise Cinegraph: An Encyclopedia of German Cinema. Berghahn Books, 2009.

External links[]

• The Chaste Libertine at IMDb

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