The Four Companions (film)
The Four Companions | |
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Directed by | Carl Froelich |
Written by | (play and screenplay) |
Produced by | Carl Froelich |
Starring | |
Cinematography | Reimar Kuntze |
Edited by | Gustav Lohse |
Music by | Hanson Milde-Meissner |
Production company | Tonfilmstudio Carl Froelich |
Distributed by | UFA |
Release date |
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Running time | 96 minutes |
Country | Germany |
Language | German |
The Four Companions (German: Die vier Gesellen) is a 1938 German drama film directed by Carl Froelich and starring Ingrid Bergman, Sabine Peters and Carsta Löck. adapted the script from his own play. The film was intended as a star vehicle to launch Bergman's career in Germany.[1]
Synopsis[]
After graduation, four female art students attempt to set up their own advertising agency.
Cast[]
- Ingrid Bergman as Marianne Kruge
- Sabine Peters as Käthe Winter
- Carsta Löck as Lotte Waag
- Ursula Herking as Franziska
- Hans Söhnker as Stefan Kohlund
- Leo Slezak as Professor Lange
- Erich Ponto as Regierungsrat Alfred Hintze
- Heinz Welzel as Feinmechaniker Martin Bachmann
- Rudolf Klicks as Direktor der graphischen Berufsschule
- as Direktor der Seidenstrumpffabrik
- as Sekretärin des Fabrikdirektors
- Wilhelm P. Krüger as Maurermeister am Neubau
- Willi Rose as Straßenbahnschaffner
- as Hauswart
- Ernst G. Schiffner as Geschäftsmann, der keinen Auftrag erteilt
- as Berliner Jüngling an der Litfaßsäule
- as Ausstellungsdiener
- as 1. Grafikschüler
- as 2. Grafikschüler
- Zarah Leander as Singer
References[]
- ^ Lunde p. 157
Bibliography[]
- Ascheid, Antje (2010) [2003]. Hitler's Heroines: Stardom and Womanhood in Nazi Cinema. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. ISBN 978-1-59213-843-2.
- Chandler, Charlotte (2007). Ingrid: Ingrid Bergman, A Personal Biography. New York: Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-1-4165-3914-8.
- Lunde, Arne (2010). Nordic Exposures: Scandinavian Identities in Classical Hollywood Cinema. Seattle: University of Washington Press. ISBN 978-0-295-99045-3.
External links[]
Categories:
- 1938 films
- German-language films
- German films
- Films of Nazi Germany
- German drama films
- German black-and-white films
- 1938 drama films
- Films set in Berlin
- Films directed by Carl Froelich
- German films based on plays
- Films about fictional painters
- Films about advertising
- UFA GmbH films
- 1930s German film stubs