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Komödianten-Emil

04/03/1980

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1hr 35min

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Drama

STORY

The early 1930s in Berlin. Cabaret artist Emil Damaschke wants to entertain people with his program - together with Ida, the attraction from Hungary. But because he risks a lip that is too big, he is thrown out of the "Rosenthaler" cabaret, ends up on the criminal circuit and briefly in prison. Back out again, he and his colleagues leased the "Rosenthaler", whose Jewish owners had fled abroad to escape the Nazis. They set up a cooperative. However, a gang of criminals who professed allegiance to the Nazis wanted a share of the profits and believed they had a free ride. Emil rejects Ida's intention to win over the workers as a new audience, he makes money with advertising and refuses to join the criminals. They kidnap Ida, murder her in the forest and make sure that Emil is framed for the murder. Emil ends up in prison and the criminals take over the cabaret - in Nazi uniform.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Gunter Sonneson
  • Zsuzsa Pálos
  • Rolf Hoppe
  • Wolfgang Greese
  • Dietmar Richter-Reinick

    Director

  • Joachim Hasler

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • DEFA
  • Künstlerische Arbeitsgruppe ''Berlin''

    Production Countries

  • Germany
  • East Germany

LANGUAGES

  • German

Cast

Gunter Sonneson

Emil Damaschke

Zsuzsa Pálos

Rolf Hoppe

Kommissar

Wolfgang Greese

Dietmar Richter-Reinick

Karl-Ernst Horbol

Siegfried Weiß

Willi Schrade

Klaus-Peter Pleßow

Willi Neuenhahn