''Enemies'' () is a 1940 German drama film directed by

Viktor Tourjansky Victor Tourjansky ( 4 March 1891 – 13 August 1976), born Vyacheslav Konstantinovich Turzhansky (), was a Russian actor, screenwriter and film director who emigrated after the Russian Revolution (1917), Russian Revolution of 1917. He worked in F ...

and starring

Brigitte Horney Brigitte Horney (; 29 March 1911 – 27 July 1988) was a German theatre and film actress. Best remembered was her role as Empress Katherine the Great in the 1943 version of the UFA film version of '' Baron Münchhausen'', directed by Josef vo ...

Willy Birgel Willy Birgel (19 September 1891 – 29 December 1973), born Wilhelm Maria Birgel, was a Germans, German theatre and film actor. Career Birgel began his acting career before World War I on the stage in his native city of Cologne, and came to mo ...

and

Reinhold Lütjohann Reinhold is a German, male given name, originally composed of two elements. The first is from ''regin'', meaning "the (German)Gods" or as an emphatic prefix (very) and ''wald'' meaning "powerful". The second element having been reinterpreted as '' ...

.Hake p. 225 The film was a Nazi propaganda work, attacking Poland which Germany had

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the year before. The film's sets were designed by Herbert Hochreiter, Alfred Metscher and

Julius von Borsody Julius von Borsody (8 April 1892 in Vienna – 18 January 1960, also in Vienna) was an Austrian film architect and one of the most employed set designers in the Austrian and German cinemas of the late silent and early sound film periods. His youn ...

Cast

as Anna *

as Keith *

as Wegner *

Karl-Heinz Peters Karl-Heinz Peters (28 August 1903 – 5 September 1990) was a German film actor. Selected filmography * '' Alarm at Station III'' (1939) * ''Men Are That Way'' (1939) * '' The Governor'' (1939) * '' Enemies'' (1940) * '' Mein Leben für Irlan ...

as Antek *

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as Paul Wegner - Sohn *

Iván Petrovich Iván Petrovich (; 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 worked in German cinema, but also collaborated ...

as Jan *

Arnulf Schröder Arnulf Schröder (born Munich, June 13, 1903 - died there, December 22, 1960) was a German actor and director. He studied at the Oberrealschule with Claire Bauroff. He spent some of his career working in the cabarets of Berlin. Selected filmog ...

as Wladek *

Hedwig Wangel Hedwig Wangel (1875–1961) was a German stage and film actress. Life and career Born as Amalie Pauline Hedwig Simon on September 23, 1875, in Berlin in the German Empire, Hedwig Wangel was the daughter of a music publisher. After studying acting ...

as Liska *

Carl Wery Carl Sebastian Martin Wery (born Wery de Lemans; 7 August 1897 in Trostberg, Upper Bavaria – 14 March 1975 in Munich) was a German actor. Selected filmography * '' No Day Without You'' (1933) * '' Anna and Elizabeth'' (1933) - Annas Vater * ...

as Martin *

Beppo Brem Beppo Brem (11 March 1906 in Munich, German Empire – September 5, 1990 in Munich, West Germany) was a German film actor, who was in over 200 film and television productions between 1932 and 1990. He often played stereotypically Bavarian characte ...

as Wegereit * Gerd Høst as Marianne Wegner, Tochter *

Nicolas Koline Nicolas Koline (1878–1973) was a Russian stage and film actor. He established himself in Russia as a stage performer with the Moscow Art Theatre. He emigrated from Russia after the October Revolution of 1917 and came to France with La Chauve-Sou ...

as Andreas *

Friedrich Ettel Friedrich Ettel (8 June 1890 – 12 March 1941) was a Swiss film actor. Ettel was born in Zurich and died at the age of 50 in Berlin, Germany. Selected filmography * '' Ludwig II, King of Bavaria'' (1929) * '' Two People'' (1930) * '' Louise, Que ...

as Keller *

Ludwig Schmid-Wildy Ludwig Schmid-Wildy (3 May 1896 – 30 January 1982) was a German actor. Selected filmography * '' Um das Menschenrecht'' (1934) * '' Shock Troop'' (1934) * '' Storms in May'' (1938) * '' Escape in the Dark'' (1939) * ''Uproar in Damascus'' (1939 ...

as Lessing *

Walter Holten Walter may refer to: People and fictional characters * Walter (name), including a list of people and fictional and mythical characters with the given name or surname * Little Walter, American blues harmonica player Marion Walter Jacobs (1930–19 ...

as Böhme * Hannes Keppler as Hans Martin *

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as Stach *

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as Tischlergehilfe * Paul Dahlke as Fährmann * Maria Heil as Mutti, deutsche Flüchtlingsfrau * Hans Benedikt * Katharina Berger as Flüchtlingsfrau * Heinz Burkhardt as Flüchtling * Willy Cronauer as Pole in der Schenke *

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as Flüchtlingsfrau * Walter Ebert-Grassow *

Franz Fröhlich Franz may refer to: People * Franz (given name) * Franz (surname) Places * Franz (crater), a lunar crater * Franz, Ontario, a railway junction and unorganized town in Canada * Franz Lake, in the state of Washington, United States – see Fran ...

* Karl Gelfius as Kattwig, Flüchtling *

Fred Goebel Fred Goebel (3 April 1891 – 16 May 1964) was a German film actor. He was born as Walter Goebel and was sometimes credited as Fred Selva-Goebel. Selected filmography * '' Child on the Open Road'' (1919) * '' The Dance of Death'' (1919) * '' Bett ...

as Pole in der Schenke *

Karl Hanft Karl Hanft (25 July 1904 – 2 February 1982) was an Austrian film actor. Selected filmography * '' Shock Troop'' (1934) * '' Enemies'' (1940) * '' The Endless Road'' (1943) * '' Tonelli'' (1943) * ''Orient Express The ''Orient Express'' was ...

as Polnischer Wachtposten *

Walter Hillbring Walter may refer to: People and fictional characters * Walter (name), including a list of people and fictional and mythical characters with the given name or surname * Little Walter, American blues harmonica player Marion Walter Jacobs (1930–19 ...

as Stefan *

Charles Willy Kayser Charles Willy Kayser (28 January 1881 – 10 July 1942) was a German film actor. He was born in Metz, Lorraine (region), Lorraine, Germany (now, Moselle (department), Moselle, France) and died at the age of 61 in 1942. Selected filmography * ' ...

as Flüchtling * Walter Kindler * * Helmut Kutzner * Emanuel Matousek as Pole in der Schenke * Justus Paris as Pole in der Schenke *

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as Ignaz * Kurt Uhlig as Pole in der Schenke *

Werner Völger Werner may refer to: People * Werner (name), origin of the name and people with this name as surname and given name Fictional characters * Werner (comics), a German comic book character * Werner Von Croy, a fictional character in the ''Tomb Rai ...

* Dolf Zenzen as Pole in der Schenke

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* 1940 films Nazi World War II propaganda films German drama films 1940 drama films 1940s German-language films Films set in the 1930s Films set in Poland Films directed by Victor Tourjansky Bavaria Film films German black-and-white films 1940s German films Films scored by Lothar Brühne Nazi-era films restricted in Germany {{1940s-Germany-film-stub