''Cruiser Emden'' (german: Kreuzer Emden) is a 1932

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war film War film is a film genre concerned with warfare, typically about naval, air, or land battles, with combat scenes central to the drama. It has been strongly associated with the 20th century. The fateful nature of battle scenes means that wa ...

directed by

Louis Ralph Louis Ralph (born Ludwig Josef Musik; 17 August 1878 – September 1952) was an Austrian film actor and director. He was born Ludwig Musik in Graz, Styria, Austria-Hungary (now Austria), and died in Berlin at age 68. Selected filmography * ''Di ...

and starring Ralph, Renée Stobrawa, Hans Schlenck, and

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 ...

. It was shot at the

Emelka Studios Bavaria Studios are film production studios located in Munich, the capital of the region of Bavaria in Germany, and a subsidiary of Bavaria Film. History The studios were constructed in the suburb of Geiselgasteig in 1919 shortly after the Fir ...

Munich Munich ( ; german: München ; bar, Minga ) is the capital and most populous city of the German state of Bavaria. With a population of 1,558,395 inhabitants as of 31 July 2020, it is the third-largest city in Germany, after Berlin and Ha ...

. It is a remake of a 1926 silent film ''

Our Emden ''Our Emden'' (German: ''Unsere Emden'') is a 1926 German silent war film directed by Louis Ralph.Reynaud p.110 It depicts the operations of the German First World War cruiser SMS ''Emden''. In 1932 Ralph remade the story as a sound film '' ...

'' which had also been directed by Ralph.Kester p. 32 The film depicts the German

First World War World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fig ...

cruiser .

Cast

as Captain von Müller * Renée Stobrawa as Grete * Hans Schlenck as Adjutant *

as Petzold *

Fritz Greiner Fritz Greiner (1879–1933) was an Austrian film actor. Selected filmography * ''Der Einäugige'' (1916) * ''Der Klub der Einäugigen'' (1917) - Nick Carter * ''Der schwarze Jack'' (1918) - Cowboy Schwarzer Jack * '' The Hunter of Fall'' (1918 ...

as Mertens * Will Dohm as Russian Captain *

Willy Kaiser-Heyl Willy Kaiser-Heyl (4 August 1876 – 2 December 1953) was a German film actor. He appeared in 92 films between 1919 and 1952. He was born in Frankfurt, Germany and died in Berlin. Selected filmography * '' The Tragedy of a Great'' (1920) * ...

as Australian Captain * O.E. Hasse as English Officer *

Julius Brandt Julius Brandt (5 March 1873, in Olmütz – 26 December 1949, in Vienna) was an Austrian stage and film actor, film director and screenwriter. Selected filmography * '' The Gentleman Without a Residence'' (1915) * ''Pogrom'' (1919) * ''The Pri ...

as English Officer *

Georg Henrich Georg Henrich (9 September 1878 – 30 March 1934) was a German stage and film actor.Grange p.202 Selected filmography * ''The Fountain of Madness'' (1921) * ''The Way to the Light'' (1923) * ''Girls You Don't Marry'' (1924) * ''The Shot in the ...

as Direktor Schröder * Kurd E. Heyne as Matrose der "Emden" * Toni Forster-Larrinaga as Anuschka * Rudolf Hoch as Captain of the 'Markomania' * Charles Willy Kayser as Offizier der "Emden" *

Helmut Käutner Helmut Käutner (25 March 1908 – 20 April 1980) was a German film director active mainly in the 1940s and 1950s. He entered the film industry at the end of the Weimar Republic and released his first films as a director in Nazi Germany. Käu ...

as Matrose der 'Emden' *

Else Kündinger Else may refer to: Places * Else (Lenne), a river in Germany, tributary to the Lenne * Else (Werre), a river in Germany, tributary to the Werre People * Else (given name) * Else (surname) Music * "Else" (song), a 1999 rock song * '' The Els ...

as Stenotypist * Albert Lippert as Offizier der "Emden" *

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 ...

as Offizier der "Emden" * Reinhold Nietschmann as Volontär Ender * Walter Pittschau as Offizier der "Emden" * Helmuth Renar as Offizier der "Emden" * Julius Riedmueller as Offizier der "Emden" *

Norbert Schultze Norbert Arnold Wilhelm Richard Schultze (26 January 1911 in Brunswick – 14 October 2002 in Bad Tölz) was a prolific German composer of film music and a member of the NSDAP and of Joseph Goebbels' staff during World War II. He is best reme ...

as Matrose der 'Emden' *

Bobby Todd Bobby Todd (22 June 1904 – 7 September 1980) was a German film actor. He appeared in 34 films between 1926 and 1961. Selected filmography * '' Cruiser Emden'' (1932) * ''The Dream of Butterfly'' (1939) * '' The Original Sin'' (1948) * ''H ...

as Matrose der 'Emden' * Hans von Strobl as Navigation Officer

References

Bibliography

* Kelly, Andrew. ''Cinema and the Great War''. Routledge, 1997. * Kester, Bernadette. ''Film Front Weimar: Representations of the First World War in German films of the Weimar Period (1919–1933)''. Amsterdam University Press, 2003.

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* 1932 films 1932 war films German war films 1930s German-language films Films directed by Louis Ralph World War I naval films World War I films based on actual events Films of the Weimar Republic Remakes of German films Sound film remakes of silent films German black-and-white films German historical films 1930s German films Films shot at Bavaria Studios Bavaria Film films {{1930s-Germany-film-stub

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