''Family Parade'' () is a 1936 German

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directed by

Fritz Wendhausen Fritz Wendhausen (7 August 1890 – 5 January 1962) was a German actor, screenwriter and film director. He is also credited as Frederick Wendhausen and F.R. Wendhausen. In 1938 he immigrated to Britain from Nazi Germany. Selected filmography Scre ...

and starring Ernst Dumcke,

Curd Jürgens Curd Gustav Andreas Gottlieb Franz Jürgens (13 December 191518 June 1982) was a German-Austrian stage and film actor. He was usually billed in English-speaking films as Curt Jurgens. He was well known for playing Ernst Udet in ''Des Teufels Gener ...

and Amanda Lindner. It was shot at the Halensee Studios in

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.Klaus p.68 The film's sets were designed by the

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Fritz Maurischat Fritz Maurischat (April 27, 1893 in Berlin – December 11, 1986) was a German production designer. He made his film debut in 1924. Over the next 38 years, he worked on over 70 films, all of them in his native Germany. He earned an Oscar nominatio ...

and Karl Weber.

Cast

* Ernst Dumcke as Graf Sven Stjernenhö *

as Graf Erik Stjernenhö * Amanda Lindner as Reichsgräfin Jutta *

Walter Janssen Walter Janssen (7 February 1887 – 1 January 1976) was a German film actor and director. He appeared in more than 160 films between 1917 and 1970. Selected filmography * '' The Dancer'' (1919) * ''Destiny'' (1921) * '' Wandering Souls'' ( ...

as Graf Hjalmar *

Helmut Weiss Helmut Weiss (January 25, 1907 – January 13, 1969) was a German actor, screenwriter, and film director. He was notable for directing ''Tell the Truth (film), Tell the Truth'', the first film produced after the Second World War in what was to bec ...

as Vetter Bertel *

Hubert von Meyerinck Hubert "Hubsi" von Meyerinck (23 August 1896 – 13 May 1971) was a German film actor. He appeared in more than 280 films between 1921 and 1970. Biography Meyerinck was born in Potsdam, Brandenburg, the son of Friedrich von Meyerinck (1858� ...

as Vetter Max *

Herbert Hübner Herbert Hübner (6 February 1889 – 27 January 1972) was a German stage and film actor. He appeared in more than 150 films between 1921 and 1966. He was born in Breslau, Germany (now Wrocław, Poland) and died in Munich, West Germany. Select ...

as Baron Barrenkrona * Ellen Frank as Alice Barrenkrona *

Käthe Haack Käthe Haack (born Käte Lisbeth Minna Sophie Isolde Haack; 11 August 1897 – 5 May 1986) was a German stage and film actress. She appeared in more than 200 films and 30 television productions between 1915 and 1985. Life and career Käte Li ...

as Karin Bratt * F.W. Schröder-Schrom as Knut Bratt * Heinz Rippert as Erik Bratt * Klaus Pohl as Graf Donnerschlag auf Riesenfels * Richard Ludwig as Baron Greifenkreuz * Franz Weber as Graf Löwenborg *

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 Gräfin Löwenborg * Hedi Heising as Ingrid *

Ewald Wenck Ewald Wenck (28 December 1891 – 3 April 1981) was a German actor. He appeared in more than 230 films and television shows between 1919 and 1978. Selected filmography * '' We Stick Together Through Thick and Thin'' (1929) * '' Spoiling th ...

as Graf Güldenstjerna * Else Ehser as Gräfin Güldenstjerna * Franz Schönemann as Baron Thornberg * Maria Seidler as Baronin Thornberg *

Hugo Flink Hugo Flink (16 August 1879 – 2 May 1947) was an Austrian stage and film actor. Flink was one of the earliest actors to play Sherlock Holmes on screen. Flink was born in Vienna and died in Berlin. Selected filmography * '' The Onyx Head'' (1 ...

as Herr Wennergren *

Olga Engl Olga Engl (30 May 1871 – 21 September 1946) was an Austrian-German stage and motion picture actress who appeared in nearly 200 films. Biography Engl was privately educated in an Ursuline monastery and began her acting career at the Prague C ...

as Frau Wennergren *

Maria Krahn Maria Krahn (1896–1977) was a German actress. Selected filmography * '' Wibbel the Tailor'' (1931) * '' Pappi'' (1934) * ''A Woman With Power of Attorney'' (1934) * '' Hermine and the Seven Upright Men'' (1935) * '' The Private Life of Louis ...

as Miss Grove *

Lucie Höflich Lucie Höflich (born Helene Lucie von Holwede; 20 February 1883 – 9 October 1956) was a German actress, teacher and head of the Staatliche Schauspielschule (State Drama School) in Berlin.

as Frau Appelquist *

Willi Schaeffers Willi Schaeffers (1884–1962) was a German film actor and cabaret performer.Jelavich p.246 Selected filmography * ''The Blue Mouse (1913 film), The Blue Mouse'' (1913) * ''A Blackmailer's Trick'' (1921) * ''Nameless Woman'' (1927) * ''The Street ...

as Johannsen *

Bruno Ziener Bruno Ziener (11 June 1870 – 9 February 1941) was a German stage and film actor and film director, director. He appeared in over 100 films between 1913 and 1941. He also directed 28 silent films such as ''The Flight into Death'' (1921).Grange p ...

as Frederik *

Otto Stoeckel Otto is a masculine German given name and a surname. It originates as an Old High German short form (variants ''Audo'', '' Odo'', '' Udo'') of Germanic names beginning in ''aud-'', an element meaning "wealth, prosperity". The name is recorded fro ...

as Lindström *

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 1. Geschäftsmann *

Oskar Höcker Oskar Höcker (13 June 1840 – 8 April 1894) was a German author of historical novels for children and a stage actor. Biography Oskar Höcker was born in a suburb of Eilenburg, in the Kingdom of Prussia, Prussian Province of Saxony, as was his br ...

as Geschäftsmann * Hans Henninger as Lauritz *

Paula Denk Paula Denk (; 18 January 1908 in Namibia – 9 January 1978 in Munich) was a German actress. She was a star of stage, screen, radio and television whose career spanned five decades. Denk’s list of acting credits begins in the 1930s, with f ...

as Olga * Eta Klingenberg as Sigrid

References

Bibliography

* Klaus, Ulrich J. ''Deutsche Tonfilme: Jahrgang 1935''. Klaus-Archiv, 1988. *

External links

* 1936 films 1936 comedy films German comedy films Films of Nazi Germany 1930s German-language films Films directed by Fritz Wendhausen Tobis Film films German black-and-white films 1930s German films Films shot at Halensee Studios Films scored by Will Meisel {{1930s-Germany-comedy-film-stub