''Bobby Gets Going'' (German: ''Bobby geht los'') is a 1931 German

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directed by and starring

Harry Piel Heinrich Piel (12 July 1892 – 27 March 1963), known professionally as Harry Piel, was a prolific German actor, film director, screenwriter, and film producer who was involved in over 150 films. Piel became a director in 1912, turning out suc ...

and also featuring Annie Markart,

Hilde Hildebrand Emma Minna Hilde Hildebrand (10 September 1897 – 12 May 1976) was a German actress born in Hanover, Germany on 10 September 1897. She died at the age of 78 in Grunewald, Berlin, on 27 May 1976. Selected filmography * ''Die Scheidungsehe'' ...

and

Kurt Lilien Kurt Lilien (born Kurt Lilienthal; 6 August 1882 – 28 May 1943) was a German actor. He appeared in 50 films between 1919 and 1933. Lilien was born into a Jews, Jewish family, Lilien would be arrested and sent to Sobibor extermination camp ...

. It was shot at the

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and on location around

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including at the

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.Klaus p.34 The film's sets were designed by the

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. It was based on a 1926 novel by

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. It was distributed by the German branch of

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Cast

as Bob Morland * Annie Markart as Marietta *

as Olga Loty *

as Gurken-Karl *

Ferdinand Hart Ferdinand Hart (28 October 1893 in Písek – 12 January 1937 in Prague) was a film actor from Czechoslovakia. Selected filmography * '' The Hungarian Princess'' (1923) * ''The Queen of the Baths'' (1926) * '' You Walk So Softly'' (1928) * '' Und ...

as Padube *

Erich Dunskus Erich Adolf Dunskus (27 July 1890 – 25 November 1967) was a German film actor. He appeared in 170 films between 1927 and 1966. He was born in Pillkallen, East Prussia East Prussia was a Provinces of Prussia, province of the Kingdom o ...

as Mertens *

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as Majewski *

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 Der rote Jonas *

Kurt von Ruffin Kurt von Ruffin (28 September 1901 – 17 November 1996) was a German actor and opera singer who was imprisoned by the Nazis for the crime of homosexuality. Career Von Ruffin began his career as a singer. Starting in 1927, he sang with the operas ...

as Paul Romanow *

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 Felix * Fritz Steiner as Wiesel *

Alfred Beierle Alfred Beierle (4 June 1885 – 16 March 1950) was a German stage actor, stage and film actor.Alpi p.346 Selected filmography * ''The League of Three'' (1929) * ''The Flute Concert of Sanssouci'' (1930) * ''The Tiger Murder Case'' (1930) * ''Oh T ...

as Arena-Director *

Eugen Rex Eugen Rex (8 July 1884 – 21 February 1943) was a German actor. Rex was a member of the Nazi Party The Nazi Party, officially the National Socialist German Workers' Party ( or NSDAP), was a far-right politics, far-right political party ...

as Eine Type

References

Bibliography

* Giesen, Rolf. ''The Nosferatu Story: The Seminal Horror Film, Its Predecessors and Its Enduring Legacy''. McFarland, 2019. * Klaus, Ulrich J. ''Deutsche Tonfilme: Jahrgang 1931''. Klaus-Archiv, 1988.

External links

* 1931 films Films of the Weimar Republic 1931 comedy films 1930s action comedy films German action comedy films 1930s German-language films Films directed by Harry Piel German black-and-white films 1930s German films Films shot in Berlin Universal Pictures films Films based on German novels Films shot at Halensee Studios Films scored by Fritz Wenneis Films based on works by Georg Mühlen-Schulte {{1930s-Germany-comedy-film-stub