Invisible Opponent
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| Directed by | Rudolph Cartier |
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| Produced by | Sam Spiegel |
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| Cinematography | Georg Bruckbauer Eugen Schüfftan |
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| Music by | Rudolph Schwarz |
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| Distributed by | Märkische Film (Germany) |
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Running time | 87 minutes |
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| Language | German |
Invisible Opponent (German: Unsichtbare Gegner) is a 1933 German-Austrian drama film directed by Rudolph Cartier and starring Gerda Maurus, Paul Hartmann, and Oskar Homolka. The film's sets were designed by the art director Erwin Scharf. The film was made at the Sievering Studios in Vienna. The critics were not generally impressed with the film, with the Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung describing it as an "unbelievable and unbelievably awful picture".[2]
A separate French-language version The Oil Sharks was also released.[3]
Synopsis
[edit]The plot revolves around an oil swindle in a South American country.
Cast
[edit]- Gerda Maurus as Sybil Herford
- Paul Hartmann as Peter Ugron
- Oskar Homolka as James Godfrey
- Peter Lorre as Henry Pless
- Paul Kemp as Hans Mertens
- Raoul Aslan as J. Delmonte
- Leonard Steckel as Santos
- H. Kyser as Sir Thomas
- Eva Schmid-Kayser as Eva Ugron
- Jaro Fürth
- John Mylong
- Otto Schmöle
- Franke
- Maria Holst
- Josef Rehberger
- Wilhelm Stauffen
- Mihail Xantho
References
[edit]- ↑ LoBrutto, Vincent (1991). "Rudi Fehr". Selected Takes: Film Editors on Editing. ABC-CLIO. p. 29. ISBN 9780275933951.
- ↑ Youngkin p.80
- ↑ Youngkin p.466
Bibliography
[edit]- Youngkin, Stephen. The Lost One: A Life of Peter Lorre. University Press of Kentucky, 2005.
External links
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- 1933 films
- Films of the Weimar Republic
- Austrian drama films
- German drama films
- 1933 drama films
- 1933 German-language films
- Films directed by Rudolph Cartier
- Films set in South America
- German multilingual films
- Films about con artists
- German black-and-white films
- Austrian black-and-white films
- 1933 multilingual films
- 1933 German films
- Films shot at Sievering Studios
- German-language drama films
- Films with screenplays by Louis de Wohl
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