''Central Rio'' (German: ''Zentrale Rio'') is a 1939 German

crime film Crime films, in the broadest sense, is a film genre inspired by and analogous to the crime fiction literary genre. Films of this genre generally involve various aspects of crime and its detection. Stylistically, the genre may overlap and combi ...

directed by

Erich Engels Erich Engels (23 May 1889 – 25 April 1971) was a German screenwriter, producer and film director. He should not be confused with another contemporary German director Erich Engel.Bock & Bergfelder p.112 Selected filmography * ''Dear Homeland'' ...

and starring

Leny Marenbach Leny Marenbach (20 December 1907 – 26 January 1984) was a German film actress. She was a leading German actress of the Nazi era, appearing in films such as the biopic '' Friedemann Bach''.Schulte-Sasse p.332 After the Second World War, she appe ...

Camilla Horn Camilla Martha Horn (25 April 1903 – 14 August 1996) was a German dancer and a film star of the silent and sound era. She starred in several Hollywood films of the late 1920s and in a few British and Italian productions. Biography The daught ...

and

Ita Rina Tamara Đorđević (born Italina Lida Kravanja; 7 July 1907 – 10 May 1979), known professionally as Ita Rina, was a Slovenian film actress and beauty queen. She was one of the major film stars in Germany and Czechoslovakia in the late 1920s an ...

.Noack p.157 The film's sets were designed by the art director

Willi Herrmann Willi Herrmann (1893–1968) was a German art director. Selected filmography * '' Madness'' (1919) * '' Child on the Open Road'' (1919) * '' Jettatore'' (1919) * ''Humanity Unleashed'' (1920) * '' The Secrets of Berlin'' (1921) * '' The Mahara ...

. It was shot at the

Terra Studios The Terra Studios or Marienfelde Studios were film studios located in the Berlin suburb of Marienfelde. The studios were originally a glasshouse constructed in 1913 by the early company Eiko Film, controlled by the producer Franz Vogel who had ...

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and on location in

Hamburg Hamburg (, ; nds, label=Hamburg German, Low Saxon, Hamborg ), officially the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg (german: Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg; nds, label=Low Saxon, Friee un Hansestadt Hamborg),. is the List of cities in Germany by popul ...

Synopsis

A German woman's husband has been missing for years, presumed dead. Then she receives information that is alive and living in

Brazil Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...

. She resolves to travel to

Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro ( , , ; literally 'River of January'), or simply Rio, is the capital of the Rio de Janeiro (state), state of the same name, Brazil's List of Brazilian states by population, third-most populous state, and the List of largest citi ...

to find out the truth.

Cast

as Maria Halmborg *

as Diane Mercier *

as Chiquita Salieri *

Werner Fuetterer Werner Fuetterer (10 January 1907 in Barth, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern – 7 February 1991 in Benidorm, Province of Alicante, Spain) was a German film actor. He appeared in nearly 100 films between 1925 and 1967. In his early film career, Fuetterer o ...

as Michael Wenk *

Iván Petrovich Iván Petrovich ( sr, Иван Петровић, Ivan Petrović; 1 January 1894 – 18 October 1962) was a Serbian film actor and singer. He was the first actor from Yugoslavia to have a successful international movie career. Petrovich mainly w ...

as Ricardo Perez *

Hans Zesch-Ballot Hans Zesch-Ballot (20 May 1896 – 1 September 1972) was a German film actor An actor or actress is a person who portrays a character in a performance. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern m ...

as Kommissar Dossa *

Leo Peukert Leonhard "Leo" Peukert (26 August 1885 – 6 January 1944) was a prolific German film actor and film director, appearing in more than a hundred and fifty productions between 1910 and his death in 1944. While occasionally he played a leading role ...

as Kommissar Gaveira * Paul Hoffmann as Marquez Cabana *

Reinhold Bernt Reinhold Bernt (19 December 1902 – 26 October 1981) was a German film actor. Bernt was born Reinhold Bienert in Berlin and died in West Berlin. Career Bernt's acting career began in Stuttgart with a theater debut. Soon after, he traveled to ...

as Sergeant Carmo *

Axel Monjé Axel Monjé (1910 – 1962) was a German stage and film actor.Giesen p.193 Selected filmography * '' Central Rio'' (1939) * ''Counterfeiters'' (1940) * ''My Life for Ireland'' (1941) * ''Hoegler's Mission'' (1950) * '' Come Back'' (1953) * ''The ...

as Sergeant Gonzaga * Käte Kühl as Bonita *

Walther Süssenguth Walther Süssenguth (February 8, 1900 - April 28, 1964) was a German actor. Filmography External links * 1900 births 1964 deaths People from Schleiz People from the Principality of Reuss-Gera German male film actors 20th-century Germ ...

as Schmuggler *

Marianne Simson Marianne Simson (July 29, 1920 – July 15, 1992) was a German dancer and film actress. She was born in Berlin as the daughter of an insurance clerk John Edward Simson. Her brother was Helmut Simson, who later served as mayor of Wolfsburg. Origina ...

as Solotänzerin *

Else Ehser Else Ehser (1894–1968) was a German stage actress. She also made numerous appearances in German films in supporting roles, such as her performance as Maria Theresa of Spain in the 1935 film '' The Private Life of Louis XIV''.Klossner p.223 S ...

as Garderobiere * Helmut Egiomue as Hotelboy Chico *

Rudi Schuricke Rudi Schuricke (born Erhard Rudolf Hans Schuricke; 16 March 1913, Brandenburg an der Havel – 28 December 1973) was a popular German singer and actor. In the 1930s he was Second Tenor with the Kardosch Singers, a popular vocal ensemble of the time ...

as Sänger

References

Bibliography

* Noack, Frank. ''Veit Harlan: The Life and Work of a Nazi Filmmaker''. University Press of Kentucky, 2016. * Tegel, Susan. ''Jew Suss: Life, Legend, Fiction, Film''. A&C Black, 2011.

External links

* 1939 films 1939 crime films German crime films Films of Nazi Germany 1930s German-language films Films directed by Erich Engels German black-and-white films Terra Film films Films shot in Hamburg Films set in Brazil Films set in Rio de Janeiro (city) Films based on crime novels Films based on German novels 1930s German films Films shot at Terra Studios {{1930s-Germany-film-stub