Women for Golden Hill

Women for Golden Hill
Women for Golden Hill
Directed by	Erich Waschneck
Written by	Hans Bertram; George Hurdalek; [de];
Produced by
Starring	Kirsten Heiberg; Viktor Staal; Elfie Mayerhofer;
Cinematography	Werner Krien
Edited by	Erich Kobler
Music by	Werner Eisbrenner
Production; company	UFA
Distributed by	UFA
Release date	30 December 1938
Running time	92 minutes
Country	Germany
Language	German

Women for Golden Hill (German: Frauen für Golden Hill) is a 1938 German drama film directed by Erich Waschneck and starring Kirsten Heiberg, Viktor Staal and Elfie Mayerhofer. The fim's sets were designed by the art directors Gustav A. Knauer and . The all-male inhabitants of an Australian mining camp send off for some mail order brides from Sydney. Two men refuse to join in, but their friend secretly arranges for two wives for them. Unfortunately one of them proves to be his own abandoned wife, who takes up with him again. This means a love triangle develops between the two men around the remaining woman.

The film was shot at the Babelsberg Studio and on location at Kurische Nehrung in East Prussia, which stood in for Australia. The film premiered on 30 December in Frankfurt, but was not a major box office hit.^[1]

Cast[]

Kirsten Heiberg as Violet
Viktor Staal as Douglas
Karl Martell as Stanley
Elfie Mayerhofer as Kitty
Grethe Weiser as Mdm. Doolittle
Hubert von Meyerinck as Tanzmanager
Olaf Bach as Bully
Ernst Waldow as Cocky
Otto Gebühr as Kirkwood
as Gwendolin
Wolfgang Kieling as Pat
Hans Adalbert Schlettow as Thomas Trench
Paul Dahlke as Barryman
Lotte Rausch as Alice Bedford
as O'Neilly
as Dorothy
Ilse Petri as Margaret
Jack Trevor as Larry
as Algenon
as Louise
as Frank
as Barbara
Gustav Püttjer as Bill
Erika Glässner as Miss Kellington
as Elisabeth
as Pierre
as Emmy
as Doran
Grete Reinwald as Brigitt
as Managan
as Josua
as Mammy
as Daisy
Erich Ziegler as Reverend Jones
as Staatsbeamter
Albert Florath as Secretary
Werner Schott as Flughafenkommandant
as Pilot Jim

References[]

^ O'Brien p.91

Bibliography[]

O'Brien, Mary-Elizabeth. Nazi Cinema as Enchantment: The Politics of Entertainment in the Third Reich. Camden House, 2006.

External links[]

Women for Golden Hill at IMDb

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[1] O'Brien p.91

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