''A Strange Guest'' (German: ''Ein seltsamer Gast'') is a 1936 German

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. The drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular ...

directed by

Gerhard Lamprecht Gerhard Lamprecht (6 October 1897 – 4 May 1974) was a German film director, screenwriter and film historian. He directed 63 films between 1920 and 1958. He also wrote for 26 films between 1918 and 1958. Life and career Lamprecht was fasci ...

and starring

Alfred Abel Alfred Peter Abel (12 March 1879 – 12 December 1937) was a German film actor, director, and producer. He appeared in more than 140 silent and sound films between 1913 and 1938. His best-known performance was as Joh Fredersen in Fritz Lang' ...

Ilse Petri Ilse Petri (20 March 1918 – 3 February 2018) was a German stage, television and film actress. Partial filmography * ''April, April!'' (1935) * ''Das Mädchen vom Moorhof'' (1935) * ''Königstiger'' (1935) * '' The Abduction of the Sabine Women ...

and Kurt Fischer-Fehling. The film's sets were designed by the

art director Art director is a title for a variety of similar job functions in theater, advertising, marketing, publishing, fashion, live-action and animated film and television, the Internet, and video games. It is the charge of a sole art director to supe ...

s Kurt Dürnhöfer and

Otto Moldenhauer Otto Moldenhauer (30 August 1882 – 27 April 1969) was a German art director. He worked frequently on the director Gerhard Lamprecht's films. Selected filmography * ''Prince Cuckoo'' (1919) * '' The Graveyard of the Living'' (1921) * '' The Bud ...

Cast

as Bruneaux, art dealer *

as Yvette, his daughter *Kurt Fischer-Fehling as Henry de Valencours, Yvette's fiancé * Franz Weber as Valencour's father *

Annemarie Steinsieck Annemarie Steinsieck (21 September 1889 – 29 August 1977) was a German actress. She was married to actor Hugo Werner-Kahle. Selected filmography * '' The Duke of Reichstadt'' (1920) * '' Modern Vices'' (1924) * '' Dear Homeland'' (1929) * '' A ...

as Mutter de Valencours *

Fritz Odemar Fritz Odemar (13 January 1890 – 6 June 1955) was a German film actor. He appeared in more than 150 films between 1927 and 1955. He was born in Hannover, Germany and died in Munich, West Germany. Odemar's father was the actor Fritz Odemar ...

as Uncle Théophile *

Aribert Wäscher Aribert Wäscher (1 December 1895 – 14 December 1961) was a German film actor. Selected filmography * '' The Black Tulip Festival'' (1920) * '' The Graveyard of the Living'' (1921) * '' Slums of Berlin'' (1925) * '' The Hanseatics'' (1925) * ' ...

as Rompon * Werner Scharf as René Morone, the blackmailer * Elisabeth Wendt as Lou *Eduard Wenck as hotel manager *

Eva Tinschmann Eva Tinschmann (April 19, 1893 – August 10, 1978) was a German actress. She appeared in the 1937 Sherlock Holmes film '' The Grey Lady''.Pointer p.153 Selected filmography * '' The Final Chord'' (1936) * '' The Accusing Song'' (1936) * '' Scand ...

as landlady *

Hermann Speelmans Hermann Speelmans (14 August 1906 – 9 February 1960) was a German stage and film actor.Capua p. 120 Selected filmography * '' Her Dark Secret'' (1929) - Emil * ''Diana'' (1930) * ''There Is a Woman Who Never Forgets You'' (1930) * '' Danton'' ...

as Gaston, valet *Johanna Blum as Jeanette, chambermaid *

Karl Falkenberg Karl Falkenberg (born Karl Franz Josef Falkenberg, 6 April 1887 – died after 1936) was a German-Jewish film actor. Selected filmography * '' Clown Charly'' (1918) * ''Cain'' (1918) * '' Blackmailed'' (1920) * '' The Song of the Puszta'' (1 ...

as Kellner Maurice *

Werner Stock Werner Bruno Wilhelm Hermann Stock (20 October 1903 – 30 April 1972) was a German actor. He appeared in more than 130 films and television shows between 1932 and 1971. Selected filmography * ''Spoiling the Game'' (1932) * ''Decoy'' (1934 ...

as clerk *

Rudolf Klein-Rogge Friedrich Rudolf Klein (24 November 1885 – 29 May 1955), better known as Rudolf Klein-Rogge, was a German film actor, best known for playing sinister figures in films in the 1920s and 1930s as well as being a mainstay in director Fritz Lang's ...

as Polizeipräfekt * Hansjoachim Büttner as commissioner *Bob Iller as detective #1 *Hermann Meyer-Falkow as detective #2 *

Gerhard Dammann Gerhard Dammann (30 March 1883 – 21 February 1946) was a German film actor. Selected filmography * '' The Man in the Cellar'' (1914) * '' Under the Lantern'' (1928) * '' Eva in Silk'' (1928) * '' Lemke's Widow'' (1928) * '' When the Mother an ...

as Taxi driver *Wolfram Anschütz *

Valy Arnheim Valy Arnheim (born Valentin Theodor Woldemar Appel; 8 June 1883 – 11 November 1950) was a German film actor and director. Selected filmography * '' Lightning Command'' (1921) * '' Anne-Liese of Dessau'' (1925) * '' Harry Hill's Deadly Hunt'' ( ...

as the servant at Bruneaux *Johannes Bergfeldt as Gaspard, employee at Bruneaux *Werner Bernhardy as guest *

Erwin Biegel Erwin Friedrich Richard Biegel (25 March 1896 – 24 May 1954) was a German stage and film actor who appeared in over eighty feature films in a variety of supporting roles. Selected filmography * ''The Young Count'' (1935) * '' His Late Excell ...

as servant *Colette Corder as Uncle Théophile's table lady at the engagement party *Joe Münch-Harris as salesman *Edgar Nollet *Kurt Richards as secretary *Olga Rumland as flower girl *Maria Seidler as guest *Ursula van Diemen *Betty Waid as old lady at the engagement party

References

External links

* Films of Nazi Germany German drama films 1936 drama films Films directed by Gerhard Lamprecht UFA GmbH films German black-and-white films 1930s German films Films scored by Giuseppe Becce {{1930s-Germany-film-stub