''Invisible Opponent'' (German: ''Unsichtbare Gegner'') is a 1933 German-Austrian

drama film In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. Drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular super ...

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 plot revolves around an oil swindle in a South American country. The film was made at the

Sievering Studios Sievering Studios were film production studios located in Sievering, a suburb of the Austrian capital Vienna. The studios were established in 1916 by the film pioneer Alexander Kolowrat for use by his Sascha-Film. After the First World War they f ...

Vienna en, Viennese , iso_code = AT-9 , registration_plate = W , postal_code_type = Postal code , postal_code = , timezone = CET , utc_offset = +1 , timezone_DST ...

. The critics were not generally impressed with the film, the '' Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung'' described it as "unbelievable and unbelievably awful picture". A separate French-language version '' The Oil Sharks'' was also released.Youngkin p.466

Cast

* Gerda Maurus as Sybil Herford * Paul Hartmann as Peter Ugron * Oskar Homolka as James Godfrey *

Peter Lorre Peter Lorre (; born László Löwenstein, ; June 26, 1904 – March 23, 1964) was a Hungarian and American actor, first in Europe and later in the United States. He began his stage career in Vienna, in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, before movin ...

as Henry Pless * Paul Kemp as Hans Mertens * Raoul Aslan as J. Delmonte *

Leonard Steckel Leonard Steckel (18 January 1901 – 9 February 1971) was a German-JewishSiegbert Salomon Prawer, ''Between Two Worlds: The Jewish Presence in German and Austrian Film, 1910-1933'', Berghahn Books (2007), p. 213 actor and director of stage and scr ...

as Santos * H. Kyser as Sir Thomas *

Eva Schmid-Kayser Eva or EVA may refer to: * Eva (name), a feminine given name Arts, entertainment, and media Fictional characters * Eva (Dynamite Entertainment), a comic book character by Dynamite Entertainment * Eva (''Devil May Cry''), Dante's mother in t ...

as Eva Ugron * Jaro Fürth *

John Mylong John Mylong (September 27, 1892 – September 8, 1975), also known as Jack Mylong-Münz, born Adolf Heinrich Münz, was an Austrian actor who later settled in the United States. Selected filmography * ''Der heilige Hass, 1. Teil'' (1921) - Rabo ...

* Otto Schmöle * Franke * Maria Holst * Josef Rehberger * Wilhelm Stauffen * Mihail Xantho

References

Bibliography

* Youngkin, Stephen. ''The Lost One: A Life of Peter Lorre''. University Press of Kentucky, 2005.

External links

* 1933 films Films of the Weimar Republic Austrian drama films German drama films 1933 drama films 1930s 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 1930s German films Films shot at Sievering Studios {{Austria-film-stub