''Hunting Party'' or ''Hubertus Hunt'' () is a 1959 West German

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directed by

Hermann Kugelstadt Hermann Kugelstadt (1912–2001) was a German screenwriter and film director.Von Dassanowsky p.171 In the 1950s he directed a number of productions in the popular heimatfilm tradition. During the 1960s he switched to television work. Selected fil ...

and starring

Wolf Albach-Retty Wolf Albach-Retty (born Wolfgang Helmuth Albert Albach; 28 May 1906 – 21 February 1967) was an Austrian actor. He was the father of Romy Schneider with the German actress Magda Schneider. Career Born as Wolfgang Helmuth Albert Albach in Vienna ...

Willy Fritsch Willy Fritsch (Wilhelm Egon Fritz, 27 January 1901 – 13 July 1973) was a German theatre and film actor, a popular leading man and character actor from the silent-film era to the early 1960s. Biography Early life He was born Wilhelm Egon Fritz ...

and

Lucie Englisch Lucie Englisch (8 February 1902, in Baden bei Wien – 12 October 1965) was an Austrian actress. She was married to the actor Heinrich Fuchs. Selected filmography * ''The Night Belongs to Us'' (1929) * ''Three Days Confined to Barracks (1930 fi ...

.Bock & Bergfelder p.134 It is part of the tradition of

heimatfilm ' (, German for "homeland-films"; German singular: ') were films of a genre popular in West Germany, Switzerland, and Austria from the late 1940s to the early 1960s. '' Heimat'' can be translated as "home" (in the geographic sense), "hometown" or " ...

which were at their commercial peak during the decade. Its German title is a reference to the traditional Hubertus Day hunts commemorating the life of St. Hubert of Liege.

Cast

as Friedrich Dahlhoff * Elke Andrend as Irene *

as Gretl *

Helmut Fischer Helmut Fischer (15 November 1926 – 14 June 1997) was a popular, award-winning German actor. Life Helmut Fischer was the son of a businessman and a tailor who grew up in the Munich district of at 50a, where he also went to school. When th ...

as Erwin *

as Otto Lindenberg *

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as Peterle * Sylvia Lydi as Charlotte * Angelika Meissner as Monika Dahlhoff * Raidar Müller-Elmau as Jörg * Robert Naegele as Thomas Faber *

Margitta Scherr Margitta Scherr (15 August 1943 – 30 December 2020) was a German film and television actress.Honsal p.263 Selected filmography * '' Father, Mother and Nine Children'' (1958) * '' Hunting Party'' (1959) * ''Of Course, the Motorists'' (1959) * ...

as Christa Faber *

Viktor Staal Viktor Staal (17 February 1909 – 4 June 1982) was an Austrian film actor. Selected filmography * '' Everything for the Company'' (1935) * '' Eva, the Factory Girl'' (1935) * '' Das Einmaleins der Liebe'' (1935) * '' The World's in Love'' (1935 ...

as Jakob Reinhard * Peter Thom as Mathias Reinhard

References

Bibliography

* Bock, Hans-Michael & Bergfelder, Tim. ''The Concise CineGraph. Encyclopedia of German Cinema''. Berghahn Books, 2009.

External links

* 1959 films 1959 drama films German drama films West German films 1950s German-language films Films directed by Hermann Kugelstadt Films about horses 1950s German films {{1950s-Germany-drama-film-stub